The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — 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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
