The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am… — 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
