All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — 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
The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who does not see that heresies have some time prevailed, that reforms have already taken place? All this worldly wisdom might be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to… — 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
