Henry David Thoreau Face Quotations

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.