Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Henry David Thoreau

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau

Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau

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

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau