If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or streeet, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? — 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
