Henry David Thoreau Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”

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

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”