Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreauwas an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 July 1817
CountryUnited States of America
trust optimism generous
A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
optimism honor storm
I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.
health optimism wells
As for health, consider yourself well.
thinking discovery optimism
Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
optimism elements matter
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
needs remember hunger
Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.
fighting numbers america
Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.
men patriotism firsts
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
patriotism noble virtue
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
brother men iron
The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.
religious mean heart
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
opportunity kind
There never is but one opportunity of a kind.
children anger guilt
I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.
strong animal fishing
If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.