I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several… — 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
