A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces,… — 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
