That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of… — 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
