If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that… — 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
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the… — 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. In… — 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
How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one… — 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
My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
