So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? -… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — 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
What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the… — 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
Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were… — 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
