Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...). — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended. — 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
Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind. — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
