Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.