---
title: "61 House Quotes By Henry David Thoreau"
description: "61 House quotes by Henry David Thoreau. Plus more from Henry David Thoreau and more House sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/henry-david-thoreau-20_earth-day_what-is-the-use-of-a-house-if-you-haven_2450521.jpg"
---

> [What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-is-the-use-of-a-house-if-you-haven-t-got-a-tolerable-planet-to/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/henry-david-thoreau-20_earth-day_what-is-the-use-of-a-house-if-you-haven_2450521.jpg)

> [I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-lingered-most-about-the-fireplace-as-the-most-vital-part-of-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f5/henry-david-thoreau-20_fireplaces_i-lingered-most-about-the-fireplace-as-t_1481573.jpg)

> [The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-next-time-the-novelist-rings-the-bell-i-will-not-stir-though-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72a/henry-david-thoreau-20_bells_the-next-time-the-novelist-rings-the-bel_2888178.jpg)

> [What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-is-sour-in-the-house-a-bracing-walk-in-the-woods-makes-sweet/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/henry-david-thoreau-20_bitter_what-is-sour-in-the-house-a-bracing-walk_589535.jpg)

> [What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-s-the-use-of-a-fine-house-if-you-haven-t-got-a-tolerable-planet/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b81/henry-david-thoreau-20_house_what-s-the-use-of-a-fine-house-if-you-ha_171156.jpg)

> [Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/staying-in-the-house-breeds-a-sort-of-insanity-always-every-house-is/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/228/henry-david-thoreau-20_home_staying-in-the-house-breeds-a-sort-of-in_2955873.jpg)

> [I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-have-learned-that-even-the-smallest-house-can-be-a-home/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/henry-david-thoreau-20_home_i-have-learned-that-even-the-smallest-ho_2250593.jpg)

> [I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-now-first-began-to-inhabit-my-house-i-may-say-when-i-began-to-use/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/henry-david-thoreau-20_firsts_i-now-first-began-to-inhabit-my-house-i_2410970.jpg)

> [When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/when-the-farmer-has-got-his-house-he-may-not-be-the-richer-but-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/henry-david-thoreau-20_farmer_when-the-farmer-has-got-his-house-he-may_2999929.jpg)

> [It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-possible-to-invent-a-house-still-more-convenient-and-luxurious/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd6/henry-david-thoreau-20_convenient_it-is-possible-to-invent-a-house-still-m_1572102.jpg)

> [If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/if-i-knew-for-a-certainty-that-a-man-was-coming-to-my-house-with-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/henry-david-thoreau-20_certainty_if-i-knew-for-a-certainty-that-a-man-was_742949.jpg)

> [Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/nowadays-almost-all-man-s-improvements-so-called-as-the-building-of-2/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/henry-david-thoreau-20_building_nowadays-almost-all-man-s-improvements-s_2429436.jpg)

> [Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/homeliness-is-almost-as-great-a-merit-in-a-book-as-in-a-house-if-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b6/henry-david-thoreau-20_art_homeliness-is-almost-as-great-a-merit-in_1902031.jpg)

> [There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/there-is-one-thought-for-the-field-another-for-the-house-i-would-have/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71b/henry-david-thoreau-20_apples_there-is-one-thought-for-the-field-anoth_2096710.jpg)

> [Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/men-and-boys-are-learning-all-kinds-of-trades-but-how-to-make-men-of-2/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/henry-david-thoreau-20_all-kinds_men-and-boys-are-learning-all-kinds-of-t_841978.jpg)

> [In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/in-canada-an-ordinary-new-england-house-would-be-mistaken-for-the-ch/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_in-canada-an-ordinary-new-england-house_2156359.jpg)

> [Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/within-the-memory-of-many-of-my-townsmen-the-road-near-which-my-house/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/henry-david-thoreau-20_borders_within-the-memory-of-many-of-my-townsmen_840879.jpg)

> [And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/and-i-am-sure-that-i-never-read-any-memorable-news-in-a-newspaper-if/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a12/henry-david-thoreau-20_accidents_and-i-am-sure-that-i-never-read-any-memo_657320.jpg)

> [A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-simple-woman-down-in-tyngsborough-at-whose-house-i-once-stopped-to/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/henry-david-thoreau-20_buckets_a-simple-woman-down-in-tyngsborough-at-w_1691172.jpg)

> [I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-am-no-more-lonely-than-a-single-mullein-or-dandelion-in-a-pasture/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee8/henry-david-thoreau-20_april_i-am-no-more-lonely-than-a-single-mullei_1666724.jpg)

> [The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-preachers-and-lecturers-deal-with-men-of-straw-as-they-are-men-of/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67b/henry-david-thoreau-20_baby_the-preachers-and-lecturers-deal-with-me_1763472.jpg)

> [The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-gentle-rain-which-waters-my-beans-and-keeps-me-in-the-house-today/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/henry-david-thoreau-20_be-good_the-gentle-rain-which-waters-my-beans-an_1965969.jpg)

> [The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-cart-before-the-horse-is-neither-beautiful-nor-useful-before-we/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/764/henry-david-thoreau-20_beautiful_the-cart-before-the-horse-is-neither-bea_3027439.jpg)

> [Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/under-the-one-word-house-are-included-the-schoolhouse-the-almshouse/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_under-the-one-word-house-are-included-th_1967678.jpg)

> [I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-cannot-but-regard-it-as-a-kindness-in-those-who-have-the-steering/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/208/henry-david-thoreau-20_and-love_i-cannot-but-regard-it-as-a-kindness-in_2778306.jpg)

> [Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/strange-that-so-few-ever-come-to-the-woods-to-see-how-the-pine-lives/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/henry-david-thoreau-20_arms_strange-that-so-few-ever-come-to-the-woo_346012.jpg)

> [One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/one-inconvenience-i-sometimes-experienced-in-so-small-a-house-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_one-inconvenience-i-sometimes-experience_1271594.jpg)

> [As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/as-i-walked-in-the-woods-to-see-the-birds-and-squirrels-so-i-walked/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/henry-david-thoreau-20_bird_as-i-walked-in-the-woods-to-see-the-bird_186970.jpg)

> [The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-frontiers-are-not-east-or-west-north-or-south-but-wherever-a-man/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78c/henry-david-thoreau-20_bark_the-frontiers-are-not-east-or-west-north_1499324.jpg)

> [Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/science-with-its-retorts-would-have-put-me-to-sleep-it-was-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e45/henry-david-thoreau-20_believer_science-with-its-retorts-would-have-put_2188930.jpg)

> [Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/under-a-government-which-imprisons-any-unjustly-the-true-place-for-a-2/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/henry-david-thoreau-20_alternatives_under-a-government-which-imprisons-any-u_2942634.jpg)

> [East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/east-of-my-bean-field-across-the-road-lived-cato-ingraham-slave-of/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beans_east-of-my-bean-field-across-the-road-li_1918378.jpg)

> [The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-setting-sun-is-reflected-from-the-windows-of-the-alms-house-as/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/085/henry-david-thoreau-20_abode_the-setting-sun-is-reflected-from-the-wi_123593.jpg)

> [It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-surprising-how-many-great-men-and-women-a-small-house-will-2/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/henry-david-thoreau-20_company_it-is-surprising-how-many-great-men-and_3122808.jpg)

> [At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/at-a-certain-season-of-our-life-we-are-accustomed-to-consider-every/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/777/henry-david-thoreau-20_accustomed_at-a-certain-season-of-our-life-we-are-a_585883.jpg)

> [Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/love-your-life-poor-as-it-is-you-may-perhaps-have-some-pleasant/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bb/henry-david-thoreau-20_adventure_love-your-life-poor-as-it-is-you-may-per_2443021.jpg)

> [I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-my-house-especially-in-the-morning/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd0/henry-david-thoreau-20_business_i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-my-hou_1454510.jpg)

> [I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-had-three-chairs-in-my-house-one-for-solitude-two-for-friendship/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48c/henry-david-thoreau-20_chairs_i-had-three-chairs-in-my-house-one-for-s_8753.jpg)

> [I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-the-house-especially-in-the-morning/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/henry-david-thoreau-20_business_i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-the-ho_2161965.jpg)

> [The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-indian-stands-free-and-unconstrained-in-nature-is-her-inhabitant/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/271/henry-david-thoreau-20_civilized_the-indian-stands-free-and-unconstrained_1886743.jpg)

## Other authors on House

## More by Henry David Thoreau

> [If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/if-ever-i-did-a-man-any-goodof-course-it-was-something-exceptional/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/our-inventions-are-wont-to-be-pretty-toys-which-distract-our/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/men-say-they-know-many-things-but-lo-they-have-taken-wings-the-arts/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-am-not-afraid-of-praise-for-i-have-practiced-it-on-myself/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/all-voting-is-a-sort-of-gaming-like-checkers-or-back-gammon-with-a/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/this-spending-of-the-best-part-of-one-s-life-earning-money-in-order/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/as-for-doing-good-that-is-one-of-the-professions-which-is-full/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-traveler-who-looks-at-things-with-an-impartial-eye-may-see-what-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/in-proportion-as-our-inward-life-fails-we-go-more-constantly-and/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-had-three-chairs-in-my-house-one-for-solitude-two-for-friendship/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-still-youthful-energies-of-the-globe-have-only-to-be-directed-in/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/concord-s-little-arch-does-not-span-all-our-fate-nor-is-what/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-lumberers-rarely-trouble-themselves-to-put-out-their-fires-such/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/when-he-has-obtained-those-things-which-are-necessary-to-life-there/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

> [Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/wealth-is-measured-by-the-level-of-experience-in-all-aspects-of-life/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/house/henry-david-thoreau/#itemlist",
            "name": "61 House Quotes By Henry David Thoreau",
            "numberOfItems": 40,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-is-the-use-of-a-house-if-you-haven-t-got-a-tolerable-planet-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/henry-david-thoreau-20_earth-day_what-is-the-use-of-a-house-if-you-haven_2450521.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/henry-david-thoreau-20_earth-day_what-is-the-use-of-a-house-if-you-haven_2450521.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/henry-david-thoreau-20_earth-day_what-is-the-use-of-a-house-if-you-haven_2450521.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-lingered-most-about-the-fireplace-as-the-most-vital-part-of-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f5/henry-david-thoreau-20_fireplaces_i-lingered-most-about-the-fireplace-as-t_1481573.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f5/henry-david-thoreau-20_fireplaces_i-lingered-most-about-the-fireplace-as-t_1481573.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f5/henry-david-thoreau-20_fireplaces_i-lingered-most-about-the-fireplace-as-t_1481573.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-next-time-the-novelist-rings-the-bell-i-will-not-stir-though-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72a/henry-david-thoreau-20_bells_the-next-time-the-novelist-rings-the-bel_2888178.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72a/henry-david-thoreau-20_bells_the-next-time-the-novelist-rings-the-bel_2888178.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72a/henry-david-thoreau-20_bells_the-next-time-the-novelist-rings-the-bel_2888178.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-is-sour-in-the-house-a-bracing-walk-in-the-woods-makes-sweet/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/henry-david-thoreau-20_bitter_what-is-sour-in-the-house-a-bracing-walk_589535.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/henry-david-thoreau-20_bitter_what-is-sour-in-the-house-a-bracing-walk_589535.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/henry-david-thoreau-20_bitter_what-is-sour-in-the-house-a-bracing-walk_589535.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-s-the-use-of-a-fine-house-if-you-haven-t-got-a-tolerable-planet/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b81/henry-david-thoreau-20_house_what-s-the-use-of-a-fine-house-if-you-ha_171156.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b81/henry-david-thoreau-20_house_what-s-the-use-of-a-fine-house-if-you-ha_171156.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b81/henry-david-thoreau-20_house_what-s-the-use-of-a-fine-house-if-you-ha_171156.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/staying-in-the-house-breeds-a-sort-of-insanity-always-every-house-is/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/228/henry-david-thoreau-20_home_staying-in-the-house-breeds-a-sort-of-in_2955873.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/228/henry-david-thoreau-20_home_staying-in-the-house-breeds-a-sort-of-in_2955873.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/228/henry-david-thoreau-20_home_staying-in-the-house-breeds-a-sort-of-in_2955873.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-have-learned-that-even-the-smallest-house-can-be-a-home/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/henry-david-thoreau-20_home_i-have-learned-that-even-the-smallest-ho_2250593.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/henry-david-thoreau-20_home_i-have-learned-that-even-the-smallest-ho_2250593.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/henry-david-thoreau-20_home_i-have-learned-that-even-the-smallest-ho_2250593.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-now-first-began-to-inhabit-my-house-i-may-say-when-i-began-to-use/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/henry-david-thoreau-20_firsts_i-now-first-began-to-inhabit-my-house-i_2410970.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/henry-david-thoreau-20_firsts_i-now-first-began-to-inhabit-my-house-i_2410970.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/henry-david-thoreau-20_firsts_i-now-first-began-to-inhabit-my-house-i_2410970.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/when-the-farmer-has-got-his-house-he-may-not-be-the-richer-but-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/henry-david-thoreau-20_farmer_when-the-farmer-has-got-his-house-he-may_2999929.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/henry-david-thoreau-20_farmer_when-the-farmer-has-got-his-house-he-may_2999929.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/henry-david-thoreau-20_farmer_when-the-farmer-has-got-his-house-he-may_2999929.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-possible-to-invent-a-house-still-more-convenient-and-luxurious/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd6/henry-david-thoreau-20_convenient_it-is-possible-to-invent-a-house-still-m_1572102.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd6/henry-david-thoreau-20_convenient_it-is-possible-to-invent-a-house-still-m_1572102.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd6/henry-david-thoreau-20_convenient_it-is-possible-to-invent-a-house-still-m_1572102.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/if-i-knew-for-a-certainty-that-a-man-was-coming-to-my-house-with-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/henry-david-thoreau-20_certainty_if-i-knew-for-a-certainty-that-a-man-was_742949.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/henry-david-thoreau-20_certainty_if-i-knew-for-a-certainty-that-a-man-was_742949.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/henry-david-thoreau-20_certainty_if-i-knew-for-a-certainty-that-a-man-was_742949.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/nowadays-almost-all-man-s-improvements-so-called-as-the-building-of-2/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/henry-david-thoreau-20_building_nowadays-almost-all-man-s-improvements-s_2429436.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/henry-david-thoreau-20_building_nowadays-almost-all-man-s-improvements-s_2429436.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/henry-david-thoreau-20_building_nowadays-almost-all-man-s-improvements-s_2429436.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/homeliness-is-almost-as-great-a-merit-in-a-book-as-in-a-house-if-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b6/henry-david-thoreau-20_art_homeliness-is-almost-as-great-a-merit-in_1902031.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b6/henry-david-thoreau-20_art_homeliness-is-almost-as-great-a-merit-in_1902031.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b6/henry-david-thoreau-20_art_homeliness-is-almost-as-great-a-merit-in_1902031.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 14,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/there-is-one-thought-for-the-field-another-for-the-house-i-would-have/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71b/henry-david-thoreau-20_apples_there-is-one-thought-for-the-field-anoth_2096710.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71b/henry-david-thoreau-20_apples_there-is-one-thought-for-the-field-anoth_2096710.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71b/henry-david-thoreau-20_apples_there-is-one-thought-for-the-field-anoth_2096710.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 15,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/men-and-boys-are-learning-all-kinds-of-trades-but-how-to-make-men-of-2/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/henry-david-thoreau-20_all-kinds_men-and-boys-are-learning-all-kinds-of-t_841978.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/henry-david-thoreau-20_all-kinds_men-and-boys-are-learning-all-kinds-of-t_841978.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/henry-david-thoreau-20_all-kinds_men-and-boys-are-learning-all-kinds-of-t_841978.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 16,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or \"squires,\" there is but one to a seigniory.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/in-canada-an-ordinary-new-england-house-would-be-mistaken-for-the-ch/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_in-canada-an-ordinary-new-england-house_2156359.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_in-canada-an-ordinary-new-england-house_2156359.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_in-canada-an-ordinary-new-england-house_2156359.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 17,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/within-the-memory-of-many-of-my-townsmen-the-road-near-which-my-house/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/henry-david-thoreau-20_borders_within-the-memory-of-many-of-my-townsmen_840879.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/henry-david-thoreau-20_borders_within-the-memory-of-many-of-my-townsmen_840879.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/henry-david-thoreau-20_borders_within-the-memory-of-many-of-my-townsmen_840879.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 18,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/and-i-am-sure-that-i-never-read-any-memorable-news-in-a-newspaper-if/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a12/henry-david-thoreau-20_accidents_and-i-am-sure-that-i-never-read-any-memo_657320.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a12/henry-david-thoreau-20_accidents_and-i-am-sure-that-i-never-read-any-memo_657320.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a12/henry-david-thoreau-20_accidents_and-i-am-sure-that-i-never-read-any-memo_657320.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“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",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 19,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-simple-woman-down-in-tyngsborough-at-whose-house-i-once-stopped-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/henry-david-thoreau-20_buckets_a-simple-woman-down-in-tyngsborough-at-w_1691172.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/henry-david-thoreau-20_buckets_a-simple-woman-down-in-tyngsborough-at-w_1691172.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/henry-david-thoreau-20_buckets_a-simple-woman-down-in-tyngsborough-at-w_1691172.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 20,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-am-no-more-lonely-than-a-single-mullein-or-dandelion-in-a-pasture/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee8/henry-david-thoreau-20_april_i-am-no-more-lonely-than-a-single-mullei_1666724.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee8/henry-david-thoreau-20_april_i-am-no-more-lonely-than-a-single-mullei_1666724.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee8/henry-david-thoreau-20_april_i-am-no-more-lonely-than-a-single-mullei_1666724.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 21,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state…The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-preachers-and-lecturers-deal-with-men-of-straw-as-they-are-men-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67b/henry-david-thoreau-20_baby_the-preachers-and-lecturers-deal-with-me_1763472.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67b/henry-david-thoreau-20_baby_the-preachers-and-lecturers-deal-with-me_1763472.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67b/henry-david-thoreau-20_baby_the-preachers-and-lecturers-deal-with-me_1763472.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 22,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though it prevents my hoeing them, it is of far more worth than my hoeing. If it should continue so long as to cause the seeds to rot in the ground and destroy the potatoes in the low lands, it would still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, would be good for me, too.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-gentle-rain-which-waters-my-beans-and-keeps-me-in-the-house-today/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/henry-david-thoreau-20_be-good_the-gentle-rain-which-waters-my-beans-an_1965969.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/henry-david-thoreau-20_be-good_the-gentle-rain-which-waters-my-beans-an_1965969.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/henry-david-thoreau-20_be-good_the-gentle-rain-which-waters-my-beans-an_1965969.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 23,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-cart-before-the-horse-is-neither-beautiful-nor-useful-before-we/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/764/henry-david-thoreau-20_beautiful_the-cart-before-the-horse-is-neither-bea_3027439.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/764/henry-david-thoreau-20_beautiful_the-cart-before-the-horse-is-neither-bea_3027439.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/764/henry-david-thoreau-20_beautiful_the-cart-before-the-horse-is-neither-bea_3027439.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 24,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Under the one word \"house\" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/under-the-one-word-house-are-included-the-schoolhouse-the-almshouse/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_under-the-one-word-house-are-included-th_1967678.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_under-the-one-word-house-are-included-th_1967678.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_under-the-one-word-house-are-included-th_1967678.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Under the one word \"house\" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 25,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have been nailed dawn to this my native region so long and steadily, and made to study and love this spot of earth more and more. What would signify in comparison a thin and diffused love and knowledge of the whole earth instead, got by wandering? The traveler's is but a barren and comfortless condition. Wealth will not buy a man a home in nature-house nor farm there. The man of business does not by his business earn a residence in nature, but is denaturalized rather.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-cannot-but-regard-it-as-a-kindness-in-those-who-have-the-steering/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/208/henry-david-thoreau-20_and-love_i-cannot-but-regard-it-as-a-kindness-in_2778306.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/208/henry-david-thoreau-20_and-love_i-cannot-but-regard-it-as-a-kindness-in_2778306.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/208/henry-david-thoreau-20_and-love_i-cannot-but-regard-it-as-a-kindness-in_2778306.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“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",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 26,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/strange-that-so-few-ever-come-to-the-woods-to-see-how-the-pine-lives/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/henry-david-thoreau-20_arms_strange-that-so-few-ever-come-to-the-woo_346012.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/henry-david-thoreau-20_arms_strange-that-so-few-ever-come-to-the-woo_346012.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/henry-david-thoreau-20_arms_strange-that-so-few-ever-come-to-the-woo_346012.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 27,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/one-inconvenience-i-sometimes-experienced-in-so-small-a-house-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_one-inconvenience-i-sometimes-experience_1271594.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_one-inconvenience-i-sometimes-experience_1271594.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_one-inconvenience-i-sometimes-experience_1271594.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 28,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/as-i-walked-in-the-woods-to-see-the-birds-and-squirrels-so-i-walked/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/henry-david-thoreau-20_bird_as-i-walked-in-the-woods-to-see-the-bird_186970.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/henry-david-thoreau-20_bird_as-i-walked-in-the-woods-to-see-the-bird_186970.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/henry-david-thoreau-20_bird_as-i-walked-in-the-woods-to-see-the-bird_186970.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 29,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-frontiers-are-not-east-or-west-north-or-south-but-wherever-a-man/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78c/henry-david-thoreau-20_bark_the-frontiers-are-not-east-or-west-north_1499324.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78c/henry-david-thoreau-20_bark_the-frontiers-are-not-east-or-west-north_1499324.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78c/henry-david-thoreau-20_bark_the-frontiers-are-not-east-or-west-north_1499324.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“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",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 30,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested to me that there was something to be seen if one had eyes. It made a believer of me more than before. I believed that the woods were not tenantless, but choke-full of honest spirits as good as myself any day,--not an empty chamber, in which chemistry was left to work alone, but an inhabited house,--and for a few moments I enjoyed fellowship with them.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/science-with-its-retorts-would-have-put-me-to-sleep-it-was-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e45/henry-david-thoreau-20_believer_science-with-its-retorts-would-have-put_2188930.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e45/henry-david-thoreau-20_believer_science-with-its-retorts-would-have-put_2188930.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e45/henry-david-thoreau-20_believer_science-with-its-retorts-would-have-put_2188930.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 31,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. They do not know how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/under-a-government-which-imprisons-any-unjustly-the-true-place-for-a-2/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/henry-david-thoreau-20_alternatives_under-a-government-which-imprisons-any-u_2942634.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/henry-david-thoreau-20_alternatives_under-a-government-which-imprisons-any-u_2942634.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/henry-david-thoreau-20_alternatives_under-a-government-which-imprisons-any-u_2942634.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 32,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave a house, and gave him permission to live in Walden Woods;MCato, not Uticensis, but Concordiensis. Some say that he was a Guinea Negro. There are a few who remember his little patch among the walnuts, which he let grow up till he should be old and need them; but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last. He too, however, occupies an equally narrow house at present.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/east-of-my-bean-field-across-the-road-lived-cato-ingraham-slave-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beans_east-of-my-bean-field-across-the-road-li_1918378.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beans_east-of-my-bean-field-across-the-road-li_1918378.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beans_east-of-my-bean-field-across-the-road-li_1918378.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 33,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-setting-sun-is-reflected-from-the-windows-of-the-alms-house-as/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/085/henry-david-thoreau-20_abode_the-setting-sun-is-reflected-from-the-wi_123593.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/085/henry-david-thoreau-20_abode_the-setting-sun-is-reflected-from-the-wi_123593.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/085/henry-david-thoreau-20_abode_the-setting-sun-is-reflected-from-the-wi_123593.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 34,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-surprising-how-many-great-men-and-women-a-small-house-will-2/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/henry-david-thoreau-20_company_it-is-surprising-how-many-great-men-and_3122808.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/henry-david-thoreau-20_company_it-is-surprising-how-many-great-men-and_3122808.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/henry-david-thoreau-20_company_it-is-surprising-how-many-great-men-and_3122808.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 35,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/at-a-certain-season-of-our-life-we-are-accustomed-to-consider-every/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/777/henry-david-thoreau-20_accustomed_at-a-certain-season-of-our-life-we-are-a_585883.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/777/henry-david-thoreau-20_accustomed_at-a-certain-season-of-our-life-we-are-a_585883.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/777/henry-david-thoreau-20_accustomed_at-a-certain-season-of-our-life-we-are-a_585883.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 36,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/love-your-life-poor-as-it-is-you-may-perhaps-have-some-pleasant/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bb/henry-david-thoreau-20_adventure_love-your-life-poor-as-it-is-you-may-per_2443021.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bb/henry-david-thoreau-20_adventure_love-your-life-poor-as-it-is-you-may-per_2443021.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bb/henry-david-thoreau-20_adventure_love-your-life-poor-as-it-is-you-may-per_2443021.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 37,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-my-house-especially-in-the-morning/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd0/henry-david-thoreau-20_business_i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-my-hou_1454510.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd0/henry-david-thoreau-20_business_i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-my-hou_1454510.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd0/henry-david-thoreau-20_business_i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-my-hou_1454510.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 38,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-had-three-chairs-in-my-house-one-for-solitude-two-for-friendship/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48c/henry-david-thoreau-20_chairs_i-had-three-chairs-in-my-house-one-for-s_8753.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48c/henry-david-thoreau-20_chairs_i-had-three-chairs-in-my-house-one-for-s_8753.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48c/henry-david-thoreau-20_chairs_i-had-three-chairs-in-my-house-one-for-s_8753.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 39,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-the-house-especially-in-the-morning/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/henry-david-thoreau-20_business_i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-the-ho_2161965.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/henry-david-thoreau-20_business_i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-the-ho_2161965.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/henry-david-thoreau-20_business_i-have-a-great-deal-of-company-in-the-ho_2161965.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 40,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry David Thoreau"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-indian-stands-free-and-unconstrained-in-nature-is-her-inhabitant/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/271/henry-david-thoreau-20_civilized_the-indian-stands-free-and-unconstrained_1886743.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/271/henry-david-thoreau-20_civilized_the-indian-stands-free-and-unconstrained_1886743.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/271/henry-david-thoreau-20_civilized_the-indian-stands-free-and-unconstrained_1886743.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her…” — Henry David Thoreau",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/house/henry-david-thoreau/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/house/henry-david-thoreau/",
            "name": "House Quotes by Henry David Thoreau",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/house/henry-david-thoreau/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/henry-david-thoreau-20_earth-day_what-is-the-use-of-a-house-if-you-haven_2450521.jpg"
            },
            "description": "61 House quotes by Henry David Thoreau. Plus more from Henry David Thoreau and more House sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/house/henry-david-thoreau/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/house/henry-david-thoreau/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "House",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/house/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/house/henry-david-thoreau/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```