I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“After a night's sleep the news is as indispensable as the breakfast. "Pray tell me anything new that has happened to a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been… — 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
