Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. — 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
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw 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
