Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above… — 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
My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit… No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world…There is naked Nature, inhumanly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made… — 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
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
