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
As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in… — 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
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
Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge… — 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
Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses… — 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
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
Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the… — 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
We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have… — 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
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
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
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
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — 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
As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught… — 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
