With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is more day left to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days… Farmers' sons will stare by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would that our farmers when they cut down a forest felt some of that awe which the old Romans did when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We walked in so pure and bright a light, gilding the withered grass and leaves, so softly and serenely bright, I thought… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way, Down this still stream we took our meadowy way, A poet wise has settled, whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil… — 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
