We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting… We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If a man who has no property refuses but once to earn nine shillings for the State, he is put in prison… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of… — 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 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
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 Image
“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 Image
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
