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 I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te. Henry David Thoreau sister women god A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. Henry David Thoreau sentimental women perception A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age. Henry David Thoreau infancy modern age It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter. Henry David Thoreau fishing summer winter How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk it, as is usually done.It is the most important and practical question which is put to man. Let us not answer it hastily. Let us not be content to get our bread in some gross, careless, and hasty manner. Some men go a-hunting, some a-fishing, some a-gaming, some to war; but none have so pleasant a time as they who in earnest seek to earn their bread. Henry David Thoreau sweet men war The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen. Henry David Thoreau bait fishing sports The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting. Henry David Thoreau ice fishing spring As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after. Henry David Thoreau silence men fall The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got. Henry David Thoreau doctors solitude suffering Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. Henry David Thoreau independence solitude boundaries It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another. Henry David Thoreau soul house men What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? Henry David Thoreau solitude space men To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements. Henry David Thoreau solitude done opportunity I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither. Henry David Thoreau solitude men thinking We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. Henry David Thoreau being-alone lonely loneliness There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows. Henry David Thoreau horizon solitude space The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down. Henry David Thoreau novelists house fiction The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely. Henry David Thoreau friends mean book Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil's poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world. Henry David Thoreau design men book We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else. Henry David Thoreau observation experience ideas
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