The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives… — 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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — 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
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/price.htmlvZ2FQPD1y2tlfqhG.99 — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of… — 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
