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
The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures. — 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
When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see. — 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
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success. — 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
