I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their… — 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
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — 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
For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. ” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — 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
