As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world? — 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
