Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreauwas an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 July 1817
CountryUnited States of America
afterlife world earth
Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."
humility light darkness
Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
learning light soul
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
get-well men rights
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
trust thinking may
I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
last-words funny-famous-last-words knows
I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
dream bogs wilderness
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
rubber way obstacles
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.
errors long sorrow
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.
cheating may ethics-and-morals
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
vices morality life-is
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
trust thinking care
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
kindness hate
We hate the kindness which we understand.
betrayal our-words should
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.