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
spiritual gratitude men
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.
interesting farming poor
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
women talking pleasure
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
encouraging needs praise
We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.
family art struggle
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
men alcohol call-me
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
book culture literature
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
courage morning three
The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
insanity house hospitals
Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.
mind may leisure
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
flower laughing world
The world laughs in flowers.
regret evil waiting
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
life blessed past
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
praise fame
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.