Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. — 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
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. — 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
