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
men numbers house
When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
wish teach dies
I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.
men law clash
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
dream taken goal
A goal is a dream taken seriously.
men needs wealth
A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.
treatment adore
There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.
men drummer beats
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
spring blow length
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
law discovery unfortunate
It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
light darkness genius
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
mean political moral-freedom
What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?
men thinking intellectual
I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
mean luck development
That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.
littles honest honorable
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.