I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility… — 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
