I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer; apparent want of success, but… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
