In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the… — 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
