The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within… — 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
So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all… — 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
