Henry David ThoreauThinkers

Accomplishment is tied to a sort of bias to oneself. Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

Action is essentially revolutionary, for it changes things and relations and does not consist wholly with anything which was.

Action is the necessary continuation of the written word. What one begins by reading, one must finish by acting.

Adversity is inseparable from sucess. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

Advice is that which pollutes us all, who were born as innocent.

Alienation is the idea that men have become the tools of their tools.

The Apple is surely the noblest of fruits.

Art is, in its highest condition, artlessness.

Art is at its highest when it is able to affect the quality of the day.

The Art of life is the idea that we are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

Aspiration is that without which one may still exist but one ceases to live.

Beauty is only able to be perceived with a serene mind.

Beauty's perception is a moral test.