I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They… — 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
