The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. — 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
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All men are partially buried inthe grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to. — 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
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. — 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
