It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
