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
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
men house empires
I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.
house shelter may
I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.
house novelists fiction
The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
men house soul
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.
life love-you house
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
wall heaven house
A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.
art book house
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
men house guests
The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.
reflection men house
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.
sweet house woods
What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
house site spots
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
men house company
It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.
men thinking house
Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?