Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless… — 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
I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as… — 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 lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon. — 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
