I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows… — 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
