I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . . — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — 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
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. — 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
