Walden Quotes

“I have . . . my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:self sun stars

“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

“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

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:nature heaven

“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:evil

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:evil

“Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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