Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.”

“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little stardust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

“The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

“Love must be as much a light as a flame.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”