Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed tim >>

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much >>

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude. >>

Quotations about Sensitivity

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may >>

How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought... >>

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other peo >>

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Thoreau, Henry David