I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is… — 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
