Henry David Thoreau Quotes

“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government justice obedience liberty

“We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:society war

“True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:society philosophy

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:work dreams

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

topic:reading books

“the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:loneliness others

“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:man right

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:books wealth

“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:virtue

“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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