Henry David Thoreau

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes…

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches…

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes…

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for…

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat…

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

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to…

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God…

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable…

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to…

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish…

The language of friendship is not words but meanings…

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth…

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or…

That government is best which governs least…