Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

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

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.