Henry David Thoreau Day Quotations

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

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

The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to disappear, and go into his hole like the seventeen-year locust, in an ever-shabby coat, though finer than the farmer's best, yet never dressed.... He especially is the creature of the occasion. He empties both his pockets and his character into the stream, and swims in such a day. He dearly loves the social slush. There is no reserve of soberness in him.

The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

Renew thyself completely each day.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?