Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

There are two seasons when the leaves are in their glory, their green and perfect youth in June and this their ripe old age in October.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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