Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? Henry David Thoreau More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau More Quotes From Henry David Thoreau Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau Men are born to succeed, not fail. Henry David Thoreau Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. Henry David Thoreau No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. Henry David Thoreau Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations. Henry David Thoreau Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. Henry David Thoreau The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Henry David Thoreau The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language. Henry David Thoreau The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man. Henry David Thoreau The world is but a canvas to the imagination. Henry David Thoreau There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. Henry David Thoreau To reget deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison . . . the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. Henry David Thoreau What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. Henry David Thoreau What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground. Henry David Thoreau What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Henry David Thoreau Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau
