If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I… — 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
