Henry David Thoreau Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”

“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”