Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

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.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.