As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“They make their pride," he said, "in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little."… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. — 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
