I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I confess, that practically speaking, when I have learneda man's real disposition, I have no hopes of changing it for the better… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friends . . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious… — 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
