We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common… — 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
Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating… — 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
Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the… — 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
The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly… — 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
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment. — 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
“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful… — 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
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
“A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past — 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
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God… — 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
