thoreau's thoughts, selections from the writings of henry david thoreau, ed h. g. o. blake (1890)

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THOREAU S THOUGHTSSELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGSOF HENRY DAVID THOREAU

EDITED BY

H. G. O. BLAKE

We shall one day see that the most private is the most publicenergy, that quality atones for quantity, and grandeur of characteracts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it. EMERSON

BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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Copyright, 1890,BY H. G. O. BLAKE.All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.


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INTRODUCTORY.

IN selecting the following passages fromThoreau s printed works, for the use ofthose who are already interested in him,and to win, if possible, new admirers ofwhat has given me so pure and unfailing asatisfaction for now more than forty years,I desired to make a pocket volume, containing beautiful and helpful thoughts, whichone might not only read in retirement, butuse as a traveling companion, or vade me-ciim, while waiting at a hotel, railway station, or elsewhere, something even moreconvenient and ready at hand than thenewspaper. I would furnish an antidoteto the dissipating, depressing influence oftoo much newspaper reading, somethingwhich instead of filling the mind with gos-


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INTRODUCTORY. Vtie of humanity. It is the close allianceor unity of Thoreau s genius and personalcharacter which gives such power to hiswords for the purpose I have in view,namely, to awaken or revive our interestin the worthiest things, to lift us above theworld of care and sadness into that fairerworld which is always waiting to receive us.

I would express here my obligations toDr. Samuel A. Jones, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the free use of his " Bibliography," which has been with him indeeda labor of love, and which, I am sure, willadd much to the value and attractivenessof this volume.

THE EDITOR.


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2 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.drops, and in every sound and sight aroundmy house, an infinite and unaccountablefriendliness all at once like an atmospheresustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant,and I have never thought of them since.Every little pine needle expanded andswelled with sympathy and befriended me.I was so distinctly made aware of the presence of something kindred to me, even inscenes which we are accustomed to callwild and dreary, and also that the nearestof blood to me and humanest was not aperson nor a villager, that I thought noplace could ever be strange to me again.

WALDKN, p. 143.

The best What sort of space is that whichneighbor- -hood. separates a man from his fellowsand makes him solitary ? I have found thatno exertion of the legs can bring two mindsmuch nearer to one another. What do wewant most to dwell near to ? Not tomany men surely, the depot, the post-office, the bar-room, the meeting-house, theschool-house, the grocery, Beacon Hill, orthe Five Points, where men most congregate, but to the perennial source of our


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8 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.inspiration Who has not sometimes derivedpalate. an inexpressible satisfaction fromhis food in which appetite had no share ?I have been thrilled to think that I oweda mental perception to the commonly grosssense of taste, that I have been inspiredthrough the palate, that some berries whichI had eaten on a hill-side had fed my genius. WALDEN, p. 234-

The quality He who distinguishes the trueof the appe- , . . , , ,the makes savor oi his food can never be athe sensual- ,ist. glutton ; he who does not cannot be otherwise. A puritan may go tohis brown -bread crust with as gross anappetite as ever an alderman to his turtle.Not that food which entereth into themouth defileth a man, but the appetitewith which it is eaten ; it is neither thequantity nor the quality, but the devotiontO SenSUal SaVOrS. WALDEN, p. 235-

The moral Our whole life is startlinglyrSald moral. There is never an instant s truce between virtue and

vice. Goodness is the only investmentthat never fails. In the music of theharp that trembles round the world it is


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 9the insisting on this which thrills us.Though the youth at last grows indifferent,the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of themost sensitive. Listen to every zephyrfor some reproof, for it is surely there, andhe is unfortunate who does not hear it.We cannot touch a string or move a stopbut the charming moral transfixes us.Many an irksome noise, go a long way off,is heard as music, a proud sweet satire onthe meanness of our lives. WALDKN, p. 235.

Delicacy of " That in which men differ fromthe distinc- 1111ion between brute beasts, says Mencius, " ismen and . ....beasts. a thing very inconsiderable ; thecommon herd lose it very soon ; superiormen preserve it carefully." WALDEN, P . 236.Purity in- Chastity is the flowering ofspires thesoui. man ; and what are called Genius,Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are butvarious fruits which succeed it. Man flowsat once to God when the channel of purityis open. By turns our purity inspires andour impurity casts us down. He is blessedwho is assured that the animal is dyingout in him day by day, and the divine beingestablished. WALDEN, p. 236.


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IO SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.Purity and A11 sensuality is one, though iteachTsin- takes many forms; all purity isgle thing.

man eat, or drink, or sleep sensually.They are but one appetite, and we onlyneed to see a person do any one of thesethings to know how great a sensualist he is.The impure can neither stand nor sit withpurity. When the reptile is attacked atone mouth of his burrow, he shows himselfat another. WALDEN, P . 237-

work a help ^ You w uld avoid uncleanness,agamst sm. anj ajj ^g s [nS) work earnestly,though it be at cleaning a stable. Natureis hard to be overcome, but she must beOvercome. WALDEN, p. 237.

Everyone Every man is the builder of aa scuW. temple, called his body, to thegod he worships, after a style purely hisown, nor can he get off by hammeringmarble instead. We are all sculptors andpainters, and our material is our own fleshand blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man s features, anymeanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. IIA V ice Said tThepurifica-

loui gives it mer], Why do you stay herea new hfe. an^ j-ye ^is mean moiling life,when a glorious existence is possible foryou ? Those same stars twinkle over otherfields than these. But how to come outof this condition and actually migratethither ? All he could think of was topractice some new austerity, to let hismind descend into his body and redeemit, and treat himself with ever increasingrespect. WALDEN, p. 239.

strike at the There are a thousand hackingroot of social .... ,nis by pun- at the branches ot evil to one whoowiThfe. is striking at the root, and it maybe that he who bestows the largest amountof time and money on the needy is doingthe most by his mode of life to producethat misery which he strives in vain to relieve. It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave tobuy a Sunday s liberty for the rest. Someshow their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Wouldthey not be kinder if they employed themselves there ? WALDEN, p. 83.


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12 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.Overflowing I do not value chiefly a man scharity

6 uprightness and benevolence,rmuhitude3 which are, as it were, his stem

and leaves. Those plants of whosegreenness withered we make herb tea forthe sick serve but a humble use, and aremost employed by quacks. I want theflower and fruit of a man ; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, andsome ripeness flavor our intercourse. Hisgoodness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant superfluity, whichcosts him nothing and of which he is unconscious. This is a charity that hides amultitude Of Sins. WALDKN, P . 83.

what sad- I believe that what so saddensreformer. the reformer is not his sympathywith his fellows in distress, but, though hebe the holiest son of God, is his privateail. Let this be righted, let the springcome to him, the morning rise over hiscouch, and he will forsake his generouscompanions without apology. WALDEN.P. s4 .

Our own All health and success does mesanity most good, however far off and with-helpfultoothers. drawn it may appear ; all disease


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU, 13and failure helps to make me sad and doesme evil, however much sympathy it mayhave with me or I with it. If, then, wewould restore mankind by truly Indian,botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let usbe as simple and well as Nature ourselves,dispel the clouds which hang over our ownbrows, and take up a little life into ourpores. Do not stay to be an overseer ofthe poor, but endeavor to become one ofthe worthies of the world. WALDBN, P . 85 .

The true A man is rich in proportion tothe number of things which hecan afford to let alone. WALDEN, P . 89.

The best With respect to landscapes,crop which ,, T i j- n Ta farm I am monarch of all 1 survey,affords. My right there is none to dispute."I have frequently seen a poet withdraw,having enjoyed the most valuable part of afarm, while the crusty farmer supposed thathe had got a few wild apples only. Why,the owner does not know it for many yearswhen a. poet has put his farm in rhyme, themost admirable kind of invisible fence,has fairly impounded it, milked it, skimmedit, and got all the cream, and left the farmeronly the skimmed milk. WALDEN, P . 90.


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14 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.Slavery ^8 l n as possible, live ffCCto affairs. and uncommitted. It makes butlittle difference whether you are committedto a farm or the county jail. WALDEN, P . 9 ..

Make the ^ ^ not propose to write angood

finhat ode to dejection, but to brag as

lustily as chanticleer in the morning standing on his roost, if only to wakemy neighbors Up. WALDEN, p. 9a.The creation The winds which passed overa poem toopen ears, my dwelling were such as sweepover the ridges of mountains, bearing thebroken strains, or celestial parts only, ofterrestrial music. The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted ; but few are the ears that hearit. Olympus is but the outside of theearth everywhere. WALDEN, P . 92.

The invita- Every morning was a cheerfultionofmorn- ... ,. r ,ing. invitation to make my lite otequal simplicity, and I may say innocence,with Nature herself. WALDKN, P . 96.

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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 15king Tching-Thang to this effect : " Renew thyself completely each day ; do itagain, and again, and forever again."

WALDEH, p. 96.

we should Little is to be expected of thatbe awakened . , . .each morn- day, it it can be called a day, toing by new . 111nward life, which we are not awakened byour Genius, but by the mechanical nudg-ings of some servitor, are not awakenedby our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within to a higher life thanwe fell asleep from. WALDEN, P . 96.

After a partial cessation of hisThe organsgerdul re- sensuous life, the soul of man, orbTrfeahnfui its organs rather, are reinvigo-

rated each day, and his Geniustries again what noble life it can make.

WALDEN, p. 97.

Morning is To him whose elastic and vig-rreetruly

rwe orous thought keeps pace withthe sun, the day is a perpetual

morning. It matters not what the clockssay, or the attitudes and labors of men.Morning is when I am awake and there isa dawn in me. WALDEN, P. 97 .


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1 6 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.NO one To be awake Is to be alive. Ithoroughlyawake. have never yet met a man whowas quite awake. How could I havelooked him in the face ? WALDEN, P . 9s.

Expectation We must learn to reawaken andof the dawn. keep ourse ives awake, not bymechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsakeus in our soundest sleep. WALDEN, p. 9s.

Give beauty It is something to be able toto the day .from the paint a. particular picture, or tobeautywithin. carve a statue, and so to make afew objects beautiful ; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,which morally we can do. To affect thequality of the day, that is the highestOf arts. WALDEN, p. 98.

Real life. I did not wish to live what wasnot life, living is so dear ; nor did I wishto practice resignation, unless it was quitenecessary. WALDEN, p. 98.

Life not to Our life is frittered away bycoTexityhe detail. Simplicity, simplicity,

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1 8 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.sent a man to Khoung-tseu to know hisnews. Khoung-Tseu caused the messengerto be seated near him, and questioned himin these terms : What is your masterdoing ? The messenger answered withrespect, My master desires to diminishthe number of his faults, but he cannotcome to the end of them. The messengerbeing gone, the philosopher remarked :What a worthy messenger ! What a worthy messenger ! WALDEN, P . 103.

what alone If we respected only what is in-has reality. evitabie and has a right to be,music and poetry would resound along thestreets. When we are unhurried and wise,we perceive that only great and worthythings have any permanent and absoluteexistence, that petty fears and pettypleasures are but the shadow of the reality.This is always exhilarating and sublime.

WALDEN, p. 103.

The great God himself culminates in theever Lre present moment, and will never

be more divine in all the ages.And we are enabled to apprehend at allwhat is sublime and noble, only by the


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 19perpetual instilling and drenching of thereality that surrounds us. WALDEN, P . ioS .

Live deiib- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown

off the track by every nutshell and mosquito s wing that falls on the rails. Letus rise early, and fast, or break fast, gentlyand without perturbation ; let companycome and let company go ; let the bells ringand the children cry, determined to makea day Of it.

WALDEN, p. 105.

seek to Let us settle ourselves, andthrough work and wedge our feet down-reaiity. ward through the mud and slushof opinion and prejudice and tradition anddelusion and appearance, that alluvionwhich covers the globe, through Paris andLondon, through New York and Bostonand Concord, through church and state,through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom androcks in place, which we can call reality.

WALDEN, p. 105.

Use of the The intellect is a cleaver; itintellect.

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2O SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.secret of things. I do not wish to be anymore busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feelall my best faculties concentrated in it.

WALDEN, p. ic6.

The shallow Time is but the stream I gostream of . .time. a-nshmg in. I drink at it ; butwhile I drink, I see the sandy bottom anddetect how shallow it is. Its thin currentslides away, but eternity remains. I woulddrink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. WALDEN, P . 106.

Mortality In accumulating property forand im- .mortality. ourselves or our posterity, infounding a family or a state, or acquiringfame even, we are mortal ; but in dealingwith truth we are immortal, and need fearno change nor accident. WALDEN, p. ios.

HOW to read The heroic books, even ifbooks

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printed in the character of ourmother tongue, will always be in a languagedead to degenerate times ; and we mustlaboriously seek the meaning of each wordand line, conjecturing a larger sense than


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 21common use permits, out of what wisdomand valor and generosity we have.

WALUKN, p. 109.

what are Men sometimes speak as if thesics" ? study of the classics would atlength make way for more modern andpractical studies ; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whateverlanguage they may be written, and howeverancient they may be. For what are theclassics but the noblest recorded thoughtsof men ? They are the only oracles whichare not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in themas Delphi and Dodona never gave.

WALDEN, p. no.

How true T read We]1 & ~ that is tt got a tolerable pla

net to put it on ? if you cannottolerate the planet it is on ? Grade theground first. LETTERS, p. 183.

A man s ^ a man believes and expectsfopteHn

r great things of himself, it makesno odds where you put him, orwhat you show him (of course you cannotput him anywhere, nor show him anything),he will be surrounded by grandeur. Heis in the condition of a healthy and hungryman, who says to himself, How sweetthis crust is ! If he despairs of himself,then Tophet is his dwelling-place, and heis in the condition of a sick man who isdisgusted with the fruits of finest flavor.LETTERS, p. 183.

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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 85eye, a man never discovers anything,never overtakes anything, or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever hesays or does, he merely reports himself.

LETTERS, p. 183.

Courage. Each reaching and aspiration isan instinct with which all nature consistsand cooperates, and therefore it is not invain. But alas ! each relaxation and desperation is an instinct too. To be active,well, happy, implies rare courage.

LETTERS, p. 184.

success The fact is, you have got to takede^ofnto the world on your shoulders like

Atlas, and put along with it.You will do this for an idea s sake, andyour success will be in proportion to yourdevotion to ideas. It may make your backache occasionally, but you will have thesatisfaction of hanging it or twirling it tosuit yourself. Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy. After a long day s walk with it, pitchit into a hollow place, sit down and eatyour luncheon. Unexpectedly, by someimmortal thoughts, you will be compensated. The bank whereon you sit will be


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 89The interest An absolutely new prospect is aof a new .prospect. great happiness, and 1 can getthis any afternoon. ... A single farmhouse which I had not seen before issometimes as good as the dominions of theKing of Dahomey. EXCURSIONS, p. 169.Nature Pre- From many a hill I can seevails over . ... . , , j rman in a civilization and the abodes orscape. man afar. The farmers and theirworks are scarcely more obvious thanwood-chucks and their burrows. Man andhis affairs, church and state and school,trade and commerce, and manufactures andagriculture, even politics, the most alarming of them all, I am pleased to see howlittle space they occupy in the landscape.

EXCURSIONS, p. 170.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonlyto exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. EXCURSIONS, p. 175.

The charm There are some intervals whichofwildness.

thrush, to which I would migrate, wildlands where no settler has squatted, toto which, methinks, I am already acclimated. EXCURSIONS, p. 186.


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 91wiidness of A truly good book is somethingbooks. as natural and as unexpectedlyand unaccountably fair and perfect as a wildflower discovered on the prairies of the Westor in the jungles of the East. EXCURSIONS, p. 193.

NO poetry I do not know of any poetry toNaulre.as quote which adequately expressesthis yearning for the Wild. Approachedfrom this side, the best poetry is tame. Ido not know where to find in any literature,ancient or modern, any account which contents me of that Nature with which even Iam acquainted. EXCURSIONS, p. 195.The soul By long years of patient indus-saence. try and reading of the newspapers, for what are the libraries of sciencebut files of newspapers ? a man accumulates a myriad facts, lays them up in hismemory, and then when in some spring ofhis life he scampers abroad into the GreatFields of thought, he, as it were, goes tograss like a horse, and leaves all his harness behind in the stable. EXCURSIONS, p. 203.

Knowledge A man s ignorance sometimeswTsffhan is not only useful, but beautiful,ignorance. _ while his knowledge, so called,


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92 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.is oftentimes worse than useless, besidesbeing ugly. Which is the best man todeal with, he who knows nothing abouta subject, and, what is extremely rare,knows that he knows nothing, or he whoreally knows something about it, but thinksthat he knows all ? EXCURSIONS, p. 204.Aim above MY desire for knowledge is in-knowledge.

my head in atmospheres unknown to myfeet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge,but Sympathy with Intelligence.

EXCURSIONS, p. 204.

Free and "That is active duty," saysacdvify, the tne Vishnu Purana, "which is notfor our bondage ; that is knowledge which is for our liberation ; all otherduty is good only unto weariness ; all otherknowledge is only the cleverness of anartist. EXCURSIONS, p. 205.

A border F r mV Part & I ^Ce^ tnatNaturS regard to Nature I live a sort of

border life, on the confines of aworld into which I make occasional and


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 93transient forays only, and my patriotismand allegiance to the State into whoseterritories I seem to retreat are those ofa moss-trooper. EXCURSIONS, p. 2o7 .

vision The walker in the familiar fieldsworksgofthe which stretch around my native^dness of town sometimes finds himself in

another land than is described intheir owners deeds. . . . These farms . . .have no chemistry to fix them ; they fadefrom the surface of the glass, and the picture which the painter painted stands outdimly from beneath. EXCURSIONS, p. 207.The realm We are accustomed to say inlaid waste New England that few and fewerby worldly ... .~living. pigeons visit us every year. Ourforests furnish no mast for them. So, itwould seem, few and fewer thoughts visiteach growing man from year to year, forthe grove in our minds is laid waste,sold to feed unnecessary fires of ambition,or sent to mill, and there is scarcely a twigleft for them to perch on. EXCURSIONS, P . 209 .

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96 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.to hire a man who is minding his ownbusiness. An efficient and valuable mandoes what he can, whether the communitypay him for it or not.

YANKEE IN CANADA, ETC., p. 253.

Artificial Perhaps I am more than usuallylave us. jealous with respect to my freedom. ... If my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply themwould become a drudgery. If I should sellboth my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure thatfor me there would be nothing left worthliving for. I trust that I shall never thussell my birthright for a mess of pottage.


The constant As for the comparative demandelevation of ... ,.,...which men make on life, it is anur aim.important difference between two, that oneis satisfied with a level success, that hismarks can all be hit by point-blank shots,but the other, however low and unsuccessful his life may be, constantly elevates hisaim, though at a very slight angle to thehorizon. YANKEE IN CANADA, ETC., p. 254.


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 97Living and It is remarkable that there isfivinjfshouid little or nothing to be rememberedbeautiful. written on the subject of gettinga living : how to make getting a living notmerely honest and honorable, but altogetherinviting and glorious ; for if getting a livingis not so, then living is not.


Cold and hunger seem more friendly tomy nature than those methods which menhave adopted and advise to ward them off.


The ordinary The WaYS in which mOSt menedng of get their living, that is, live, are

hostnesto mere make-shifts, and a shirkingof the real business of life, chieflybecause they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.


A grain of gold will gild a great surface,but not so much as a grain of wisdom.


where alone Men rusn to California andthemzegold

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98 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.that is to go to the very opposite extremeto where it lies. ... Is not our native soilauriferous ? Does not a stream from thegolden mountains flow through our nativevalley ? and has not this for more thangeologic ages been bringing down theshining particles and forming the nuggetsfor US ? YANKEE IN CANADA, ETC., p. 258.

what shall it A man had Better starve at oncef/he shaT" tnan l se h* s innocence in the^hoiehworid, process of getting his bread. If

within the sophisticated man thereis not an unsophisticated one, then he isbut one of the Devil s angels. As we growold we live more coarsely, we relax a littlein our disciplines, and, to some extent, ceaseto obey our finest instincts. But we shouldbe fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are moreunfortunate than ourselves.


The limited I hardly know an intellectualmen. man, even, who is so broad andtruly liberal that you can think aloud in hissociety. Most with whom you endeavorto talk soon come to a stand against some


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100 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.however ; for we do not habitually demandany more of each other.YANKEE IN CANADA, ETC., p. 262.

shallow When our life ceases to be in-mtercourse. warcj an(| p r ivate, conversationdegenerates into mere gossip. We rarelymeet a man who can tell us any newswhich he has not read in a newspaper, orbeen told by his neighbor ; and, for themost part, the only difference between usand our fellow is, that he has seen thenewspaper, or been out to tea, and we havenot. YANKEE IN CANADA, ETC., p. 263.

Lifesacn- I do not know but it is toonewspaper, much to read one newspaper aweek. I have tried it recently, and for solong it seems to me that I have not dweltin my native region. The sun, the clouds,the snow, the trees say not so much to me.You cannot serve two masters. It requiresmore than a day s devotion to know and topossess the wealth of a day.


A world If y u chance to live and movethat ff the ar>d have your being in that thinnewspaper. stratum Jn ^J^ t h e CVCntS that


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IO2 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.very street itself, with all its travel, itsbustle, and filth, had passed through ourthoughts shrine ! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide ?


Let your ^ I am to be a thoroughfare, IJTpen ufthe prefer that it be of the mountain

brooks, Parnassian streams, andnot the town sewers. There is inspiration,that gossip which comes to the ear of theattentive mind from the courts of heaven.There is the profane and stale revelationof the bar-room and the police court. Thesame ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be opened,and to which closed.


Science Even the facts of science mayaKoin- dust the mind by their dryness,spirauon. un iess they are in a sense effacedeach morning, or rather rendered fertile bythe dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, butin flashes of light from heaven.



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104 SELECTIONS FROM THOKEAU.than potatoes, and illumination more thansugar-plums, then the great resources of aworld are taxed and drawn out, and theresult, or staple production, is, not slaves,nor operatives, but men, those rare fruitscalled heroes, saints, poets, philosophers,and redeemers. YANKEE IN CANADA, ETC., p. 271.

Truth andinstitutions.

3. snow-drift is formed wherewould say, where there is a lull of truth, aninstitution springs up. But the truth blowsright on over it, nevertheless, and at lengthbloWS it down. YANKEE IN CANADA, ETC., p. 271.

The author- Poetry is so universally trueship of fpoetry. and independent 01 experiencethat it does not need any particular biography to illustrate it, but we refer it sooneror later to some Orpheus or Linus, andafter ages to the genius of humanity, andthe gods themselves. WEEK, P . 102.

Hours above We should be at the helm atleast once a day. The whole of

the day should not be daytime ; thereshould be one hour, if not more, when theday did not bring forth. WEEK, P . 103.


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not have a chance to read them at all.WEEK, p. 103.Thehibema- The poet is he that hath fatpoet. enough, like bears and marmots,to suck his claws all winter. He hibernates in this world, and feeds on his ownmarrow, ... is ... a sort of dormousegone into winter quarters of deep and serene thoughts, insensible to surroundingcircumstances ; his words are the relationof his oldest and finest memory, a wisdomdrawn from the remotest experience. Othermen lead a starved existence, meanwhile,like hawks that would fain keep on thewing and trust to pick up a sparrow nowand then. WEEK, P . 106.The rarity of A perfectly healthy sentenceperfect ex- . .pression. is ... extremely rare. For themost part we miss the hue and fragranceof the thought ; as if we could be satisfiedwith the dews of morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens withouttheir azure. WEEK, p. no.


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may hep force and precision of style towhich hard-working men, unpractised in writing, easily attain, when required to make the effort ; as if plainnessand vigor and sincerity, the ornaments ofstyle, were better learned on the farm andin the workshop than in the schools.

WEEK, p. 113.

Hours of Some hours seem not to beresolution. occas jon for any dccd> but fQrresolves to draw breath in. We do notdirectly go about the execution of the purpose that thrills us, but shut our doors behind us and ramble with prepared mind, asif the half were already done. Our resolution is taking root or hold . . . then, asseeds first send a shoot downward, whichis fed by their own albumen, ere they sendone upward to the light. WEEK, P . uS .

Few speak The scholar is not apt to makeeugh of his most familiar experience comegracefully to the aid of his ex

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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. IO/and confer no favor. They do not speaka good word for her. . . . The surlinesswith which the woodchopper speaks ofhis woods, handling them indifferently ashis axe, is better than the mealy-mouthedenthusiasm of the lover of nature. Betterthat the primrose by the river s brim be ayellow primrose and nothing more, thanthat it be something less. WEEK, P . n S .

Always room A good book will never havefor a true r .book. been forestalled, but the topicitself will in one sense be new, and itsauthor, by consulting with Nature, will consult not only with those who have gone before, but with those who may come after.There is always room and occasion enoughfor a true book on any subject, as there isroom for more light the brightest day, andmore rays will not interfere with the first.

WEEK, p. 116.

Good and One sailor was visited in hisbad sleep. Breams this night by the EvilDestinies, and all those powers that arehostile to human life, which constrain andoppress the minds of men, and make theirpath seem difficult and narrow, and beset


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. IOQscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights andshades which the intervening spaces create, than by its groundwork and composition. It is the morning now turned evening and seen in the west, the same sun,but a new light and atmosphere. ... Inreality, history fluctuates as the face of thelandscape from morning to evening. Whatis of moment is its hue and color . . . ; wewant not its then, but its now. We do notcomplain that the mountains in the horizonare blue and indistinct ; they are the morelike the heavens. WEEK, P . :6 4 .

Divine What are threescore years andten, hurriedly and coarsely lived,

to moments of divine leisure, in which yourlife is coincident with the life of the universe ? We live too fast and coarsely, justas we eat too fast, and do not know thetrue savor of our food. We consult ourwill and our understanding and the expectation of men, not our genius. I can impose upon myself tasks which will crushme for life and prevent all expansion, andthis I am but too inclined to do.

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1 10 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.The muse The loftiest strains of the musetoo plaintive. aY^ for the most ^^ sublimelyplaintive, and not a carol as free as nature s. The contest which the sun shinesto celebrate from morning to evening isunsung. The muse solaces herself, and isnot ravished, but consoled. . . . But inHomer and Chaucer there is more of theserenity and innocence of youth than inthe more modern and moral poets.

WEEK, p. 389.

A spomane- To the innocent there are nei-cencTabove ther cherubims nor angels. At

rare intervals we rise above thenecessity of virtue into an unchangeablemorning light, in which we have only tolive right on and breathe the ambrosialair. WEEK, p. 390.

There is no wisdom that can take placeof humanity. WEEK, P . 39 i.

Each deed Our whole life is taxed for theoy thTwhlie least thing well done. It is its

net result. How we eat, drink,sleep, and use our desultory hours now inthese indifferent days, with no eye to ob-


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. Illserve and no occasion to excite us, determines our authority and capacity for thetime tO COme. EARLY SPRING, p. 22.

A friend s ^ friend advises by his wholebehavior, and never condescends

to particulars. Another chides away afault, he loves it away. While he sees theother s error, he is silently conscious of it,and only the more loves truth itself, andassists his friend in loving it, till the faultis expelled and gently extinguished.

EARLY SPRING, p. 28.

A lesson Simplicity is the law of naturefrom the . urnlowers. for men as well as for flowers.When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptialbed

(calyx)is excessive, luxuriant, it is un

productive. . . . Such a flower has no trueprogeny, and can only be reproduced bythe humble mode of cuttings from its stemor roots. . . . The fertile flowers are single,not double. EARLY SPRING, p. 28.

The source l have thoughts, as I walk, onabove

uoguhr- some subject that is running in

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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 113where we pulled up a bush in our mountainwalk, and saw the glittering treasure. Letus return thither. Let it be the price ofour freedom to make that known.

WINTER, p. 169.

unconscious We reprove each other unconsciously by our own behavior.Our very carriage and demeanor in the

streets should be a reprimand that will goto the conscience of every beholder. Aninfusion of love from a great soul gives acolor to our faults which will discover themas lunar caustic detects impurities in water.The best will not seem to go contrary toothers ; but as if they could afford to travelthe same way, they go a parallel but highercourse. Jonson says,

" That to the vulgar canst thyself apply,Treading a better path, not contrary."


We must How can our love increase un-friend a

rs we ^ess ur loveliness increases also ?

We must securely love each otheras we love God, with no more danger thatour love be unrequited or ill bestowed.There is that in my friend before which Imust first decay and prove untrue.



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linguist; its logic, if not confor-mable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be mostconvincing. The nearer we can approachto a complete but simple transcript of ourthought, the more tolerable will be thepiece, for we can endure to consider ourselves in a state of passivity or in involuntary action, but rarely can we endure toconsider our efforts, and least of all, ourrare efforts. EARLY SPRING, p. 77.

Essential We must not expect to probelife not to . . ebe probed, with our nngcrs the sanctuary ofany life, whether animal or vegetable. Ifwe do, we shall discover nothing but surface still. The ultimate expression or fruitof any created thing is a fine effluence,which only the most ingenuous worshiperperceives at a reverent distance from itssurface even. . . . Only that intellectmakes any progress toward conceiving ofthe essence which at the same time perceives the effluence. EARLY SPRING, p. 83.NO ripeness There is no ripeness which ismerely the .. . . .means. not, so to speak, something ultimate in itself, and not merely a perfected


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 115means to a higher end. In order to beripe it must serve a transcendent use. Theripeness of a leaf, being perfected, leavesthe tree at that point, and never returnsto it. EARLY SPRING, p. 84.

Music has A history of music would beno history. jj^ the history of the flltUFC, fOFso little past is it and capable of recordthat it is but the hint of a prophecy. ... Ithas no history more than God. . . . Properly speaking, there can be no history butnatural history, for there is no past in thesoul, but in nature. ... I might as wellwrite the history of my aspirations.


The warbie The bluebird on the apple-tree,of the blue- , , . . , . .bird. warbling so innocently, to inquireif any of its mates are within call, theangel of the spring ! Fair and innocent,yet the offspring of the earth. The colorof the sky, above, and of the subsoil, beneath, suggesting what sweet and innocentmelody, terrestrial melody, may have itsbirthplace between the sky and the ground.

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Il6 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.Content- We can only live healthily the[heiife^ life the gods assign us. I mustus receive my life as passively as thewillow leaf that flutters over the brook. Imust not be for myself, but God s work,and that is always good. . . . My fate cannot but be grand so. We may live the lifeof a plant or an animal without living ananimal life. This constant and universalcontent of the animal comes of restingquietly in God s palm. EARLY SPRING, p. in.The delight My friend! my friend! ... Tocourlfwith address thee delights me, there

is such clearness in the delivery.I am delivered of my tale, which, told tostrangers, still would linger in my life as ifuntold, or doubtful how it ran.EARLY SPRING, p. 112.Real wealth. I wish so to live ever as to derivemy satisfactions and inspirations from thecommonest events, every-day phenomena,so that what my senses hourly perceive inmy daily walk, the conversations of myneighbors, may inspire me, and I maydream of no heaven but that which liesabout me. ... I do not wish my native soil


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 1 1/to become exhausted and run out throughneglect. Only that traveling is good whichreveals to me the value of home, and enablesme to enjoy it better. That man is therichest whose pleasures are the cheapest.


Solitude and MrS - A - takes On dolefully Onaccount of the solitude in whichshe lives ; but she gets little consolation.Mrs. B. says she envies her that retirement.Mrs. A. is aware that she does, and says itis as if a thirsty man should envy anotherthe river in which he is drowning. So goesthe world. It is either this extreme orthat. Of solitude, one gets too much ;another, not enough. EARLY SPRING,?. 116.

Turn The scholar finds in his experi-tovvards thelight. ence some studies to be most fertile and radiant with light, others, dry,barren, and dark. If he is wise he will notpersevere in the last, as a plant in a cellar will strive towards the light. . . . Dwellas near as possible to the channel in whichyour life flows. A man may associate withsuch companions, he may pursue such em-


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Il8 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.ployments, as will darken the day for him.Men choose darkness rather than light.


The solitude How alone must our life beof a human ,. , ,soul. lived. We dwell on the seashore,and none between us and the sea. Menare my merry companions, my fellow-pilgrims, who beguile the way, but leave meat the first turn in the road, for none aretraveling one road so far as myself. . . .Parents and relatives but entertain theyouth. They cannot stand between himand his destiny. EARLY SPRING, p. 128." The king- I am startled that God can makedom of God . , . , ,cometh not me so rich, even with my ownwith obser- , _ , , ..vation." cheap stores. It needs but a fewwisps of straw in the sun, some small worddropped, or that has long lain silent in somebook. When heaven begins, and the deadarise, no trumpet is blown. Perhaps theSOUth wind will blow. EARLY SPRING, p. 129.Let love rest As soon as I see people lovingon common -aspirations, what they see merely, and nottheir own high hopes that they form of others, I pity them and do not want their love.


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 1 19Did I ask thee to love me who hate myself ?No ! Love that which I love, and I willlove thee that loves it. EARLY SPRING, p. 133-

The promise Life is grand, and so are its en-in the face of r -n i T- ^nature. vironments of last and ruture.Would the face of nature be so serene andbeautiful if man s destiny were not equallySO ? EARLY SPRING, p. 133.

Singleness What am I gOOd for HOW, whoof purpose. am stm searching after highthings, but to hear and tell the news, tobring wood and water, and count howmany eggs the hens lay ? In the meanwhile I expect my life to begin. I will notaspire longer. I will see what it is I wouldbe after. I will be unanimous.


water in No sooner has the ice of Wal-eariy spring. den melted than the wind beginsto play in dark ripples over the face of thevirgin water. It is affecting to see natureso tender, however old, and wearing noneof the wrinkles of age. Ice dissolved isthe next moment as perfect water as if ithad been melted a million years. To see


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120 SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU.that which was lately so hard and immovable now so soft and impressible! What ifour moods could dissolve thus completely ?It is like a flush of life on a cheek that wasdead. It seems as if it must rejoice in itsown newly-acquired fluidity, as it affectsthe beholder with

joy.EARLY SPRING, p. 135.

The privacy Our religion is as unpublic andof rehgion. incOmmunicable as our poeticalvein, and to be approached with as muchlove and tenderness. EARLY SPRING, P . i 37 .

Nobook As I am going to the woods, Ican match . 11 i inature. think to take some small book inmy pocket, whose author has been therealready, whose pages will be as good as mythoughts, and will eke them out, or showme human life still gleaming in the horizonwhen the woods have shut out the town.But I can find none. None will sail as farforward into the bay of nature as mythought. They stay at home. I would gohome. When I get to the wood, their thinleaves rustle in my fingers. They are bareand obvious, and there is no halo or hazeabout them. Nature lies fair and far behind them all. EARLY SPRING, p. 137.


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SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU. 121The divinity When God made man he re-of the human . .eye. served some parts and some rightsto himself. The eye has many qualitieswhich belong to God more than man. Itis his lightning which flashes therein.When I look into my companion s eye, Ithink it is God s private mine. It is a noblefeature ; it cannot be degraded. For Godcan look on all things undefiled.


NO truth The only way to speak the truthwithout love. is to speak iovingiyi Only thelover s words are heard. The intellectshould never speak. It does not utter anatural SOUnd. EARLY SPRING, p. 139.

Disinter- The great and solitary heartestedlove. ^ IQVQ ^^ without the knQW_ledge of its object. It cannot have societyin its love. It will expend its love as thecloud drops rain upon the fields over whichit liOcltS. EARLY SPRING, p. 139.

Aspirations I P^y that the life of this springm the spring. ancj summ er may ever lie fair inmy memory. May I dare as I have neverdone. May I persevere as I have never


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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOREAU"A truth-speaker he, capable of the most deep and strict conver

sation ; a physician to the wounds of any soul." EMERSON.


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PREFACE." IT is the bibliographer who of all men

has most occasion to realize the imperfection of human endeavor. Completeness inbibliography is an ignis fatuus that eludeseven the closest pursuit and the most painstaking endeavor." If such an adept as Mr.R. R. Bowker makes the above avowal (andit may be found in his preface to the"American Catalogue," 1 885), that fact mustplead for the "imperfection" of this bit ofprentice work, which has been done insuch moments as could be stolen from theimperative duties of an arduous profession.To be suddenly summoned from searchinga catalogue to soothe a colic may be " business ; " it is hardly bibliographing.

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128 PREFACE.simply a thank-offering to Thoreau s memory, from one who has been " lifted up andstrengthened" by his example. It wascompiled in the hope that it might facilitate the study of, and enlarge an acquaintance with, the author of "the only bookyet written in America, to my thinking,that bears an annual perusal." Standingat Thoreau s graveside some twenty-eightyears ago, Emerson said, " The countryknows not yet, or in least part, how greata son it has lost. ... His soul was madefor the noblest society ; he had in a shortlife exhausted the capabilities of this world ;wherever there is knowledge, whereverthere is virtue, wherever there is beauty, hewill find a home." There is too much oftruth in the fear that the man so certified"great, intelligent, sensual, avariciousAmerica" knows not yet, or in least part.There is peril for the soul in such ignorance.To those unacquainted with Thoreau,

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A CONTRIBUTION TOWARD ABIBLIOGRAPHYOF

HENRY DAVID THOREAU.I.

PAPERS, POEMS, AND BOOKS BY THOREAU.1840. Sympathy. The Dial, i. 71 (July). Reprinted

in the collection of poems at the close ofLetters to Various Persons.

Aulus Persius Flaccus. The Dial, i. 117 (July).Reprinted in A Week on the Concord andMerrimack Rivers, p. 326.

1841. Stanzas: "Nature doth have her dawn eachday." The Dial, i. 314 (January). Reprintedin A Week on the Concord and MerrimackRivers, p. 301.

Sic Vita. The Dial, ii. 81 (July). Reprintedin A Week on the Concord and MerrimackRivers, p. 405.

Friendship. The Dial, ii. 204 (October). Reprinted under the title, " Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers," in the collection of poemsat the close of Letters to Various Personsjalso in A Week on the Concord and Merri-tnack Rivers, p. 304.


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132 BIBLIOGRAPHY.1842. Natural History of Massachusetts. The Dial,

iii. 19 (July). Reprinted in Excursions.Prayers. The Dial, iii. 77 (July). Reprinted

in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slaveryand Reform Papers.The Black Knight. The Dial, iii. 180 (October).The Inward Morning. The Dial, iii. 198 (October). Reprinted in A Week on the Concordand Merrimack Rivers, p. 311.

Free Love. The Dial, iii. 199 (October). Reprinted in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, p. 296.The Poet s Delay. The Dial, iii. 200 (October). Reprinted in A Week on the Concordand Merrimack Rivers, p. 364.Rumors from an ^Eolian Harp. The Dial. iii.200 (October). Reprinted in A Week on theConcord and Merrimack Rivers, p. 185.The Moon. The Dial, iii. 222 (October).

To the Maiden in the East. The Dial, iii. 222(October). Reprinted in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, p. 54.The Summer Rain. The Dial, iii. 224 (October). Reprinted in A Week on the Concordand Merrimack Rivers, p. 320.

1843. The Laws of Menu. Selected by H. D. T.The Dial, iii. 331 (January).The Prometheus Bound. Translated by H. D.T. The Dial, iii. 363 (January).

Anacreon. With translations. The Dial, iii.484 (April). Reprinted in A Week on theConcord and Merrimack Rivers, p. 238.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 133To a Stray Fowl. The Dial, iii. 505 (April).Orphics: Smoke, Haze. The Dial, iii. 505

(April). Reprinted in the collection of poemsat the close of Letters to Various Persons;also, the former in Walden, p. 271 ; the latterin A Week on the Concord and MerrimackRivers, p. 229.Dark Ages. The Dial, iii. 527 (April). Reprinted in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, pp. 164-168.A Winter Walk. The Dial, iv. 211 (October).Reprinted in Excursions.A Walk to Wachusett. The Boston Miscellany. Reprinted in Excursions.

The Landlord. The Democratic Review, xiii.427 (October). Reprinted in Excursions.Paradise (to be) Regained. The DemocraticReview, xiii. 451 (November). Reprinted inA Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slaveryand Reform Papers.

1844. Homer, Ossian, Chaucer; extracts from alecture on poetry, read before the ConcordLyceum, November 29, 1843. The Dial, iv.290 (January).

Pindar. Translations. The Dial, iv. 379 (January)-

Herald of Freedom. The Dial, iv. 507 (April).Reprinted in A Yankee in Canada, withAnti-Slavery and Reform Papers.

Fragments of Pindar. The Dial, iv. 513(April).

1845. Wendell Phillips before the Concord Lyceum.The Liberator, March 28. Reprinted in A


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134 BIBLIOGRAPHY.Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery andReform Papers.

1847. Thomas Carlyle and his works. Graham sMagazine, March, April. Reprinted in AYankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery andReform Papers.

1848. Ktaadn and the Maine Woods. The UnionMagazine. Reprinted in The Maine Woods.1849. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRI-MACK. RIVERS. Boston and Cambridge:James Munroe & Co. Reissued in 1867 byTicknor & Fields.

Resistance to Civil Government. ^EstheticPapers, i. 189-211. Reprinted with thetitle " Civil Disobedience " in A Yankee inCanada, with Anti- Slavery and ReformPapers.

1853. Excursion to Canada. Putnam 1s Magazine,i. 54, 179, 321 (January, February, March).Chapters i., ii., iii., of A Yankee in Canada.

1854. WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Reissued in 1889in two volumes, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,in The Riverside Aldine Series.

Slavery in Massachusetts ; an address deliveredat the anti-slavery celebration at Framing-ham, Mass., July 4. The Liberator, July 21.Reprinted in A Yankee in Canada, withAnti-Slavery and Reform Papers.

1855. Cape Cod. Putnam s Magazine, v. 632,vi. 59, 157 (June, July, August). Chapters i.-iv. of Cape Cod.

1858. Chesuncook. The Atlantic Monthly, ii. I,


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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1 3 5224, 305 (June, July, August). Reprinted inThe Maine Woods.

1859. A Plea for Captain John Brown. Read tothe citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday evening, October 30. A Yankee in Canada, withA nil-Slavery and Reform Papers.

1860. Reminiscences of John Brown. Read atNorth Elba, N. Y., July 4. The Liberator,July 27. Reprinted with the title

" The LastDays of John Brown " in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery andReform Papers.The Succession of Forest Trees ; an addressread to the Middlesex Agricultural Societyin Concord, September. The New YorkWeekly Tribune, October 6 ; also in Middlesex Agricultural Transactions. Reprinted inExcursions.

Remarks at Concord on the day of the execution of John Brown. Echoesfrom Harper sFerry. Boston : Thayer & Eldridge, p. 439,

1862. Walking. The Atlantic Monthly, ix. 657(June). Reprinted in Excursions.

Autumnal Tints. The Atlantic Monthly, x.385 (October). Reprinted in Excursions.Wild Apples. The Atlantic Monthly, x. 313(November). Reprinted in Excursions.

1863. Life without Principle. The Atlantic Monthly, xii. 484 (October). Reprinted in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers.

Night and Moonlight. The Atlantic Monthly,xii. 579 (November). Reprinted in Excur-


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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 137D. THOREAU. (Edited by H. G. O. Blake.)Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

1885. Winter Days. The Atlantic Monthly, Iv. 79(January). Reprinted in Winter, pp. 81-107.1887. WINTER: FROM THE JOURNAL OF HENRY

D. THOREAU. (Edited by H. G. O. Blake.)Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. [Publisher s date, 1888.]

II.

BOOKS WHOLLY OR IN PART DEVOTED TOTHOREAU.

1855. Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L. Henry D.Thoreart. CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, ii. 653-656. New York: CharlesScribner.

1857. Curtis, G.W. Thoreau. HOMES OF AMERICAN AUTHORS, pp. 247-248; 250-251. NewYork : D. Appleton and Company.1863. Emerson, R. W. Biographical Sketch. InThoreau s EXCURSIONS. Issued also in

COMPLETE WORKS, Riverside edition, x., pp.421-452. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

1866. Alger, W. R. Thoreau. THE SOLITUDESOF NATURE AND OF MAN, pp. 329-338. Boston : Roberts Brothers.

1868. Hawthorne, N. PASSAGES FROM THEAMERICAN NOTE-BOOKS, ii., pp. 96-99.Boston : Ticknor & Fields.

1871. Lowell, J. R. Thoreau. MY STUDY WINDOWS, pp. 193-209. Boston: James R. Os-good & Co.


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138 BIBLIOGRAPHY.1873. Charming, W. E. THOREAU : THE POET-NATURALIST. Boston: Roberts Brothers.

Alcott, A. B. Thoreau, Walden Pond. CONCORD DAYS, pp. 11-20, 259-264. Boston:Roberts Brothers.

1877. Page, H. A. (Dr. A. H. Japp). THOREAU :His LIFE AND AIMS. Boston: James R.Osgood & Co.

1878. Sanborn, F. B. MEMOIRS OF JOHNBROWN, pp. 45, 49-51. Concord, Mass.1879. Higginson, T. W. Thoreau. SHORT STUD

IES OF AMERICAN AUTHORS, pp. 23-31.Boston: Lee & Shepard.

1880. James, Jr., H. HAWTHORNE. Ame-icanMen of Letters, pp. 93-94. New York:Harper and Brothers.

1880. Scudder, Horace E. Henry David Thoreau.AMERICAN PROSE, pp. 296-301. Boston:Houghton, Mifflin and Co.

1881. Flagg, Wilson. Thoreau. HALCYON DAYS,pp. 164-168. Boston: Estes & Lauriat.

Cooke, G. W. RALPH WALDO EMERSON:His LIFE, WRITINGS, AND PHILOSOPHY.(Vide Index.) Boston: James R. Osgood &Co.

1882. Conway, M. D. Thoreau. EMERSON ATHOME AND ABROAD, pp. 279-289. Boston :James R. Osgood & Co.Alcott, A. B. SONNETS AND CANZONETS.Boston : Roberts Brothers.

Nichol, Prof. John. TJioreau. AMERICAN-LITERATURE: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH,pp. 313-321. Edinburgh: Adam and CharlesBlack.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1 39Welsh, A. H. Thoreau. DEVELOPMENT OFENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE, ii.,pp. 409-414. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co.

Burroughs, John. T/wreaiis Wildness. ESSAYS FROM THE Critic, pp. 9-18. Boston:James R. Osgood & Co.

Sanborn, F. B. Thoreau s Unpublished Poetry. ESSAYS FROM THE Critic, pp. 71-78.Boston : James R. Osgood & Co.Sanborn, F. B. Reading from Thoreau sManuscripts. CONCORD LECTURES ON PHILOSOPHY, pp. 124-126. Cambridge: MosesKing.

1883. Sanborn, F. B. HENRY D. THOREAU.American Men of Letters. Boston: Hough-ton, Mifflin & Co.1884. Hawthorne, Julian. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND His WIFE: A BIOGRAPHY.

(Vide Index.) Cambridge: James R. Osgood & Co.

1885. Sanborn, F. B. LIFE AND LETTERS OFJOHN BROWN. (Vide Index.) Boston: Roberts Brothers.

Holmes, O. W. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.(Vide Index.) American Men of Letters.Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

1886. Stevenson, R. L. Henry David Thoreau:His Character and Opinions. FAMILIARSTUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS, pp. 129-171.London: Chatto & Windus.

Dircks, W. H. Thoreau. An IntroductoryNote in WALDEN. Camelot Classics. London : Walter Scott.


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140 BIBLIOGRAPHY.Garnett, Richard. An Introductory Note inMY STUDY WINDOWS. Camelot Classics.London : Walter Scott.

1887. Cabot, James Elliot. A MEMOIR OF RALPHWALDO EMERSON, i., p. 282. Boston: Hough-ton, Mifflin & Co.

Haskins, David Green. RALPH WALDOEMERSON: His MATERNAL ANCESTORS,pp. 119-122. Boston: Cupples, Upham &Co.

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Carpenter, Edward. ENGLAND S IDEAL, pp.13-14. London : Swan, Sonnenschein, Low-rey & Co.

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INDEX.

ACTIVITY, be warmed by, 80.Actual, the ideal needs but slight

support in the, 65.Adventure, an, in the mind ratherthan in the thing done, 80.Advice, a friend s, HI.Adviser, the true, 75.Affairs, slavery to, 14; life not tobe lost in the complexity of, 16 ;

life wasted in, 17 ; the mind notto be desecrated by gossip and,101.

Affection, the reserve of, 37 ; andsloth, do.Aim, the higher the, the more earnest must be the work, 71 ; theconstant elevation of our, 96.Animal food offends the imagination, 6.

Appeal, to the highest, direct, 45 ;to the highest within you, 68.Appetite, the quality of the,makes the sensualist, 8.Appreciation, the best, is discrim

inating, S3-Aspirations, a friend cherishesone s highest, 38 ; we can re

spect our, 44 ; the helpful friendencourages our, 65 ; let loverest on common, 118; in thespring, 121.

Authorship of poetry, the, 104.Awake, morning is whenever weare truly, 15 ; no one is thoroughly, 16.

Battle in behalf of sane thinking,the, 81.

Beasts, delicacy of the distinctionbetween men and, 9.Beauty, give to the day, from thebeauty within, 16 ; unconscious

ness of, 70 ; the, or misery, oflife in our thoughts, 83.

Bluebird, the warble of the, 115,122.Body, care for the, compared withcare for the soul, 64 ; a warm,and a cold spirit, 69 ; eats upthe soul s substance, 103.Book, always room for a true, 107 ;cannot match nature, 120.Books, how to read the heroic,20 ; how true ones should be

read, 21; wildness of the best,91 ; read the best first, 105.Border life between nature andsociety, a, 92.Bow, a, which no humbler archercan bend, 72.

Bread, the true, 45 ; the taste ofthat which we earn, 46 ; to trulyearn our, we must satisfy Godfor it, 64 ; better starve thanlose innocence in getting, 98.Burdens, all, become light to thecourageous, 74.

Cares, worldly, forgotten in a truewalk, 88.

Character, work essential to, 29;the victory of, 29 ; mannersapart from, 103.

Charity which hides a multitudeof sins, overflowing love the,12.

Classics, what are the, 21.Cold and hunger, 07.Companionship, the most satisfactory, 4.

Complaint, the shallowness of,86.Contentment with the life assigned us, 116.


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148 INDEX.Convictions, our deepest, un

changeable, 79.Courage, 74, 85.Creation a poem to open ears,

the, 14.Crop, the best, which a farm af

fords, 13.Culture, humility enriches thesoul more than, 27.Darkness, pondering over thedeeds of, 87.Dawn, expectation of the, 16;more day to, 29; the inward,40; the true, 69.Deed, each, determined by thewhole life, no.Demand we make upon each

other, the low, 99.Differences, friends must be si

lent about constitutional, 39 ;the real, between friends cannot be explained away, 39.Dilettanteism, 71.Dishonesty worse than dependence, 26.Dissipation, one s proper work

and, 86.Distinction between men andbeasts, the delicacy of the, 9.

" Do what you love," 44.Dreadful thing, the, not outsideof us, 75.Dream, realize your, 24 ; ourfaintest, points to the solidestreality, 43.Dreams, the realization of, 43 ;the solidest facts that we know,43- .Dreariness, outward, 90.

Earnest, the, not hindered by trifles, 54.Earning a living, the delight ofreally, 46 ; earning money merely, the evil of, 95.

Earth and heaven, the laws of,harmonize, 48.Economy, the only cure for thenation, as for the household,>7-El Dorado, a man s, is where helives, 81.Elevation of our aim, the constant, 96.Elysium or Tophet, a man s, inhimself, 84.

Employment, exalted, 51.

Enjoyment, the true, 89.Enjoyments, poverty need nottake from us the purest, 26.Estrangement, 33.Exercise, true walking is not for,88.Existence, gratitude for the sense

of, 78.Expectations, divine, 51.Experience, a glorious, cannot be

left behind, 54.Expression, extravagance of, 24;the rarity of perfect, 105.Eye, the human, 56.Failure, real success or, is in our

thoughts, 82.Faith is earned by faithfulness,47-Faithfulness rather than knowledge saves the soul, 63.False position, why we are commonly in a, 25.Farm, the best crop which oneaffords, 13.Fastidious, one should be extremely, 98.

Faults, the toleration of, an obstacle to friendship, 34 ; the, ofour friends must be lost inlove, 39 ; the true lover wouldnot hide his, 59.

Fidelity in work, 28.Flower, a, the symbol of pure

love, 62.Flowers, a lesson from the, in.Freedom, political, but a means,

103.Friend, the actual, but a suggestion of the ideal, 30; nourishesthe soul, 30; the true educator,

31 ; the only radical reformer,31 ; associated with our choicest thought, 34 ; no slight obstacle can keep one from a, 35 ;cherishes one s highest aspirations, 38 ; the faults of, mustbe lost in love, 39; leaves thesweetest consolation at hisdeath, 41 ; enhances everything, 60; the helpful, encourages our aspirations, 65 ; doesnot limit our vision, 73 ; wemust love our, as we love God,113; the delight of intercoursewith a, 116.

Friends, are not selected, 33 ; notanxious to please each other,


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INDEX. 14933 ; help each other s loftiestdreams, 33 ; good will is necessary, not conscious, between,34 ; do not ask to be appreciated, 37; silence is understoodbetween, 37; must be silentabout constitutional differences, 39 ; the real differencesbetween, cannot be explainedaway, 39; civility between, 41 ;he who obeys his genius cannot lose his, 52 ; deal in puretruth with each other, 61 ;must meet erectly, 68 ; foundin solitude, 81.

Friendship, a thing outside of human institutions, 30 ; the dreamof all, 30; no respecter of sex,34 ; the toleration of faults anobstacle to, 34; the purest, themost unconscious, 35 ; the language of, 35 ; requires wisdomas well as tenderness, 35 ; is notconscious kindliness, 35; is inthe interest of humanity, 36 ; areany noble enough for a lasting?36 ; only between what is highest in each, 38 ; and the love ofnature harmonize, 40 ; in nature, 53.

Genius, the slightest intimationsof one s, to be regarded, 7 ; theorgans of one s, reinvigoratedby healthful sleep, 15 ; the misery of disobedience to our, 47 ;he who obeys his, cannot losehis friends, 52.

Getting a living, living and, shouldbe alike beautiful, 97; the ordinary modes of, hostile to truelife, 97.God most truly found when notconsciously sought, 49.Gold, or wisdom, 97 ; where alonethe true, is to be found, 67.

Good will is necessary, not conscious, between friends, 34.Goodness, unconscious, 87.Gossip and affairs, the mind not

to be desecrated by, 101.Grade the ground before youbuild, 84.Gratitude for the sense of existence, 78.

Hearing, there must be good, tomake a good reader, 112.

Heart, the, forever inexperienced,29.Heaven, the purest love a glimpseof, 32 ; the laws of earth and,harmonize, 48.Hebe preferred to Hygeia, 6.Hibernation of the poet, the, 105.

Highest, aim ever at the, 25 ;wealth does not help us in thepursuit of the, 27 ; within you,appeal to the, 68.

History not to be read critically,108.Hope, for ourselves, 54; the great,that gives value to life, 93.Hospitality, in manners, not in

"entertainment," 28; the costof, to our best thoughts, 82.Hours, above time, 104; of resolution, 106.Human race, sympathy of naturewith the, 5.Humanity before Nature, 74; nowisdom can take the place of,no.

Humility enriches the soul morethan culture, 27.Hunger, and thirst of body andsoul, 64; and cold, 97.Hyena, a, more easily tamed thana friend, 40.

Ideal, our, shames our best efforts, 52 ; the, needs but slightsupport in the actual, 65 ; howthe ideal transfigures a person,66.

Ideas, success comes from devotion to, 85.Ignorance, knowledge sometimesworse than, 91 ; an advantage

of, 1 12.Imagination, animal food offends

the, 6 ; must not be offended inlove, 58.

Immortality, mortality and, 20.Impulses, respect vour, 114.Industry, the comfort of, 69.Influence, unconscious, 53.Innocence, a spontaneous, above

virtue, no.Inspiration, through the palate,8 ; science should be allied to,

102.Institutions, truth and, 104.Intellect, use of the, 19.Intercourse, too much shallow, 4 ;shallow, 100.


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INDEX.Invitation, the, of morning, 14;genuine, 35.Inward life, we should be awakened each morning by new, 15.

Justice, society content with atoo narrow, 32.Kingdom of God, the, cometh notwith observation, 118.Know thyself, 23.Knowledge, faithfulness saves thesoul rather than, 63 ; sometimes worse than ignorance,

91 ; aim above, 92 ; activity,free and loving, the highest,92.

Labor, how physical, may helpthe writer, 106.Landscape, nature prevails overman in a large, $9.Language of religion, religionwithout the, 99.Law, if ye be led by the spirit, yeare not under the, 45 ; humanand divine, 122.Laws, the, of earth and heavenharmonize, 48.

Leisure, the glory of, 94; divine,109.

Life, the moral quality of natureand, 8 ; strike at the root of social ills by purifying your own,ii ; make the most of what isgood in, 14 ; a new, each day,14; we should be awakenedeach morning by new inward,15; real, 16; not to be lost inthe complexity of affair:;, 16 ;wasted in affairs, 17 ; make thebest of your own, 26; no real,without love, 40 ; simplify theproblem of, 42 ; can expresswhatever words can, 44 ; clingto the thread of, 47 ; a balanced,48 ; too high a demand cannotbe made upon, 50 ; danger ofundervaluing, 50 ; wealth complicates the problem of, 63 ;simplicity of, not an end, but ameans, 76 ; the beauty or misery of, in our thoughts, 83 ;consists with wildness, 90; thegreat hope that gives value to,93 ; out-door, 94 ; sacrificed tothe newspaper, 100 ; each deeddetermined by the whole, no;

essential, not to be probed, 114;contentment with that assignedus, 116.

Light, turn towards the, 117.Live deliberately, 19.Lives, we must account for our,

76 ; the doubleness of our, 78.Living, plain, 17; the delight of

really earning a, 46 ; and getting a living should be alikebeautiful, 97.

Loneliness, the, of false society,7 2 -Love, overflowing, the charitywhich hides a multitude of sins,12; hearty truth is one with,32 ; the purest, a glimpse ofheaven, 32 ; a hero s, delicateas a maiden s, 34; no real lifewithout, 40 ; is implacable, 42 ;wisdom and, essential to eachother, 55 ; should be ascending, 57 ; shun a descending, 57 ;true, most clear-sighted, 57; theimagination must not be offended in, 58 ; demands the utmost directness, 59 ; no lowerengagement can stand in theway of, 59 ; no treasure to becompared with, 60 ; its objectexpands, 60 ; genuine, elevatesand strengthens, 61 ; must bevigilant to retain its purity, 62 ;a flower the symbol of pure,62 ; the joy of, and of intellectual perception, 62; pure,the radical reformer, 63 ; notto be doubted, 87 ; let it reston common aspiration, 118;no truth without, 121 ; disinterested, 121.

Lover, the most ardent, a littlereserved, 56 ; the, hears things,not words, 58; the true, wouldnot hide his faults, 59.

Lovers must understand eachother without words, 58.Man, the earnest, irresistible, 47 ,as a, thinketh, so is he, 52;never discovers anything but

himself, 85 ; the truly efficient,95-Mankind, the art of, is to polishthe world, 71.Manners, hospitality in, not in" entertainment," 28 ; apartfrom character, 103.


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INDEX.Marriage, both common and divine sense should be consulted

in, 57.Marriages, the rarity of real, 56.Melancholy, yield not to, in theupward path, 51.Men, and beasts, delicacy of thedistinction between, 9 ; ask tooseldom to be nobly dealt with,

31 ; may punish us for satisfying God, 64 ; the limited viewsof, 98.Mind, an adventure in the, ratherthan in the thing done, 80 ; notto be desecrated by gossip andaffairs, 101 ; let your, be opento the best, 102.Money, not necessary for the soul,27 ; the evil of earning, merely,95-Moods, work in spite of, 72.Moral quality of nature and life,the, 8.

Morning, the invitation of, 14 ; iswhenever we are truly awake,5-

Mortality and immortality, 20.Mountains, the, within us,

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