Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working… — 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
