Quotes by : Henry David Thoreau

A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel,....

We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings,....

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied....

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Things do not change we change.

Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood....

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

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

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to....