Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous… — 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
