I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them—as if the legs were made to sit upon, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such… — 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
