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
Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise...” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness. — 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
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. — 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
It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? — 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
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. — 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
The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a… — 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
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