Henry David Thoreau Quotes

“men have become the tools of their tools.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:slavery

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:fate

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:fate opinion

“The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:democracy progress

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:food

“We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:body

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:simplicity

“I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:simplicity

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:liberty

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