The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings… — 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
How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the… — 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
