The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote. — 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
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for… — 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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. Which Dakin's and Maynard's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good,… — 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
