I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not… — 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
Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself… — 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
