Let us wander where we will, the universe is built round about us, and we are central still. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I picked up a bottle half buried in the wet sand, covered with barnacles, but stoppled tight, and half full ofred ale,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With a little more deliberationin the choice of their pursuits,all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I confess, that practically speaking, when I have learneda man's real disposition, I have no hopes of changing it for the better… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow in every barn-yard within our horizon, it is belated. That sound commonly reminds us that… — 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
Who does not see that heresies have some time prevailed, that reforms have already taken place? All this worldly wisdom might be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In some of those dense fir andspruce woods there is hardly room for the smoke to go up. The trees are a… — 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
