The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place. — 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
