A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of… — 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
