If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,-… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a… — 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
