You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers. — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
