To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness. — 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
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make… — 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
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
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that… — 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
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
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a… — 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
