That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old -… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — 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
