221 Quotes By Henry David Thoreau


All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau on men

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau on men

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau on men

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau on men

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 on men

Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau on men

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau on men

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau on men

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau on men

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau on men

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau on men

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau on men

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau on men

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David Thoreau on men

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau on money

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau on money

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau on money

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David Thoreau on money

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau on morning

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau on morning