The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the… — 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
