The meeting of two eternities, the past and future…is precisely the present moment. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all… — 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
Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God… — 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
