Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? — 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
The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men… — 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
The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless… — 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
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — 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
