We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse. — 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
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of… — 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
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and… — 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
