None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead....… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
