Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is… — 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
