Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Not that food which entereth into the moth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would that our farmers when they cut down a forest felt some of that awe which the old Romans did when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — 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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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