Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...). — 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
The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. — 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
