We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude… — 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
