Henry David Thoreau Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.”

“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“Be not simply good - be good for something.”

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”