Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every… — 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
It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will… — 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
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so… — 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
