Quotes from Henry David Thoreau

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

Your religion is where your love is.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.