Henry David Thoreau One Quotations

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.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

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?