The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. — 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
It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the… — 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
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable. — 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
How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and… — 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
