Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...). — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend. — 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
