Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? Henry David Thoreau More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau More Quotes From Henry David Thoreau What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior. Henry David Thoreau warrior life science A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts. Henry David Thoreau business men life It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow. Henry David Thoreau soldier struggle life Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. Henry David Thoreau house love-you life I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace. Henry David Thoreau fauns human-nature life Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847. Henry David Thoreau woods life years Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. Henry David Thoreau nature spring life We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me. Henry David Thoreau littles life interesting But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself. Henry David Thoreau integrity men life The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth. Henry David Thoreau hours meditation reading Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey. Henry David Thoreau reading book travel Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap. Henry David Thoreau reading naps children I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. Henry David Thoreau real reading littles Do not read the newspapers. Henry David Thoreau journalism newspapers reading Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary. Henry David Thoreau light sight knowledge We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies. Henry David Thoreau biographies book knowledge If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer. Henry David Thoreau mediums sight knowledge Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote. Henry David Thoreau evil men knowledge There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span. Henry David Thoreau ignorance science knowledge What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse. Henry David Thoreau doe love knowledge
