Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

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

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

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Men have become the tools of their tools.