I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political… — 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
