A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Far in the night, as we were falling asleep on the bank of the Merrimack, we heard some tyro beating a drum… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It seems to us that no travelerhas ever explored them, and not with standing the wonders which science is else where revealing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
According to my observation,a batteau, properly manned, shoots rapids as a matter of course, which a single Indian with a canoe carries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express theiropinion on some subject which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At this season I seldom had a visitor. When the snow lay deepest no wanderer venturednear my house for a week or… — 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
