My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with… — 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
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
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our… — 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
