Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With a little more deliberationin the choice of their pursuits,all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature… — 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
