If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.
Henry David ThoreauWhile civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them
Henry David ThoreauTags: humanity
A gun will give you the body, not the bird
Henry David ThoreauThe tavern will compare favorably with the church.
Henry David ThoreauAll change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
Henry David ThoreauHard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly.
Henry David ThoreauI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David ThoreauTags: yourself
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David ThoreauThe sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
Henry David ThoreauTags: nature
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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