As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has… — 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
