The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way, Down this still stream we took our meadowy way, A poet wise has settled, whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is more day left to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.” — henry david thoreau Copy Share Image
“The only people who ever get any place interesting are the people who get lost. That’s why the planets are so much… — 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
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences. — 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
