The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the… — 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
Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — 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
