It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding… — 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
