We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you… — 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
