More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
  2. I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale hi…
  3. My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go.
  4. She with one breath attunes the spheres, And also my poor human heart.
  5. Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seed…
  6. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of…
  7. Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves, - some…
  8. It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising; but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it. 1

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