In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate… — 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
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
