The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.… — 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
