Quotes by : Henry David Thoreau

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times....

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only....

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,....

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your....