For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of… — 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
