More - Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau

 Ability Wealth

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Henry David Thoreau

 Experience Memory

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

Henry David Thoreau

 Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

 American Author

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Henry David Thoreau

 American Author Luck

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion

Henry David Thoreau

 

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

 Direction inspirational Quote of the Day

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

Henry David Thoreau

 Friends Or Friendship

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent

Henry David Thoreau

 Jest

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Henry David Thoreau

 Eccentricity