There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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• Henry David Thoreau:

  Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspec

• Henry David Thoreau:

  Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and

• Henry David Thoreau:

  The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that

• Henry David Thoreau:

  In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

• 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

• Henry David Thoreau:

  It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.