Henry David ThoreauA collection of 141 posts

Work

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is where t...

Work

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know can any work be humble or ...

Women

To a philosopher all news as it is called is gossip and they who edit and rea...

Wisdom

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Wisdom

It's not what you look at that matters it's what you see.

Wisdom

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Truth

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak and another to hear.

Truth

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Truth

The lawyer's truth is not Truth but consistency or a consistent expediency...

Truth

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism un...