Autobiography and memoirOur life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 7.8
Autobiography and memoirThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 7.8
Autobiography and memoirIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 7.1
Autobiography and memoirI learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 7.1
Autobiography and memoirI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 7.1
Autobiography and memoirIn the long run men hit only what they aim at.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 5.6
Personal journalIf all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.Abraham Lincoln1854★ 5.5
Autobiography and memoirOur inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end... We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 5.5
Autobiography and memoirWe do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 4.8
Autobiography and memoirAs for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 4.0
Autobiography and memoirRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 4.0
Autobiography and memoirIf 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.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 3.9
Autobiography and memoirWe can never have enough of nature…. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 3.9
Autobiography and memoirThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 3.9
Autobiography and memoirBy avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property...the landscape is deformed.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 3.9
Autobiography and memoirPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 3.8
Autobiography and memoirI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 3.8
Speech · Political speechSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature—opposition to it, is [in?] his love of justice.Abraham Lincoln1854★ 3.8
Speech · Political speechI hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world—enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites—causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.Abraham Lincoln1854★ 3.7
SpeechThe fate of the country...does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.Henry David ThoreauSlavery in Massachusetts · 1854★ 3.6
PoemA Woman is a foreign land, Of which, though there he settle young, A man will ne'er quite understand The customs, politics, and tongue.Coventry PatmoreThe Angel in the House · 1854★ 3.5
PoemLove wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They read with joy, then shut the book.Coventry PatmoreThe Angel in the House · 1854★ 3.5
Autobiography and memoirIt is never too late to give up our prejudices.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 2.3
NovelThere is a wisdom of the Head, and...a wisdom of the Heart.Charles DickensHard Times: For These Times · 1854★ 2.2
Autobiography and memoirA man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 2.2
Autobiography and memoirI know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 2.2
Speech · Political speechNo man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent.Abraham Lincoln1854★ 2.2
Autobiography and memoirMost of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 2.1
Autobiography and memoirTo be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 2.1
Personal journalKeep your clothes neat and tidy; it gives you self-confidence and composure in your bearings.Leo Tolstoy1854★ 2.1
Speech · Political speechWe were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.Abraham Lincoln1854★ 2.0
PoemGod is dead! Heaven is empty-Weep, children, You no longer have a father.Gerard de Nerval1854★ 1.9
Personal journalThe beautiful implies a combination of many different qualities. Strength alone, without elegance, etc., is not beauty. In a single word, the broadest definition would be harmony.Eugene Delacroix1854★ 1.9
EpigramHonesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.Richard Whately1854★ 1.9
Autobiography and memoirLet every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.Henry David ThoreauWalden · 1854★ 1.4
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