Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by… — 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
