I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole… The characteristics and pursuits of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing 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
