I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree,… — 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
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my… — 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
