Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth… — 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
As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer; apparent want of success, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — 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
In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary… — 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
