I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is… — 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
