We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most… — 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
How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to… — 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
