Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or streeet, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking,… — 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
“We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A traveller! I love his title. A traveler is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting… We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each… — 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
