American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Being is the great explainer.
Henry David Thoreau
GreatBeing
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
MoneyDoneIdleAnythingBeenJust
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
FaithBelieveDoubtPayHerDoubts
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
FindingMoreRulePaidThanOur
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
MenBetterLongRunAimHigh
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
LifeFunnyGoodManMeDesign
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
LearningKnowForgetBeginOnlyOur
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
LoveHateOthersWhomThose
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
ServiceRevealUsOnlyBooksOften
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
MenEasyKingsCreateCivilization
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
DayNightMoreThanNovelLess
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
NatureGoodMoreBottomSenseMost
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