It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. — 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
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. — 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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — 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
There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is… — 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
In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow… — 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
I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial… — 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
We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,… — 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
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 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
East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down. — 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
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. — 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
I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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