Henry David Thoreau Quotes

“There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:men virtue

“That government is best which governs least”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:power government

“A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:power

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

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:friendship society

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:beauty ignorance

“With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:wisdom simplicity

“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:words language

“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:good action

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:good right

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:nature simplicity

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