Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. — 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 would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friends . . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They… — 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
