America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days… — 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
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers… — 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
We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left.… — 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
