Henry David Thoreau

Life Quotes

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -
Henry David Thoreau
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Life Quotes

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. -
Henry David Thoreau

Love Quotes

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -
Henry David Thoreau
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Happiness Quotes

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. -
Henry David Thoreau

Life Quotes

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -
Henry David Thoreau
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Love Quotes

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. -
Henry David Thoreau