The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree,… — 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
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught… — 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
