There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is… — 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
