Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever. — 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
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — 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
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
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered. — 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
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
