I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without… — 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
