“Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I have read in a Hindoo book, that "there was a king's son, who, being expelled in infancy from his native city,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We go eastward to realize history, and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat… — 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
