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
beauty rome soul
Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.
brother book reading
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
fall sky adam
In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.
women feelings conversation
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
men ninety-nine virtue
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
appreciate virtue
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
men thinking brain
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
stars triangles fame
The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
eye identity nerves
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
games despair amusement
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
memorable men world
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
art distance doe
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
home men play
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?
food long serious
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.