Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

"Any fool can make a rule."

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."

"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

"The heart is forever inexperienced."

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."