It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of… — 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
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
