A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me… I milk the sky and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there but to transact some private… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men… — 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
That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men think that it is essential that the "Nation" have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty… — 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
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — 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
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises… While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take… — 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
