Henry David Thoreau Quotes

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

• attitude
• company
• associates

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

• purpose
• self improvement

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

• morals
• duty
• responsibility

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

• purpose
• success

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

• work
• exercise

Men have become the tools of their tools.

• progress

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

• rules

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

• contentment

Men are born to succeed - not to fail.

• success
• failure