When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.
Henry David ThoreauThere will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
Henry David ThoreauYou boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
Henry David ThoreauHe who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Henry David ThoreauA man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.
Henry David Thoreau