To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world…There is naked Nature, inhumanly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate… — 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
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only… — 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
