Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It enriches us infinitely to recognize greater qualities than we possess in another.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several… — 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
