The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.
Henry David ThoreauThe works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
Henry David ThoreauThe man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
Henry David ThoreauProminent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him.... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.
Henry David Thoreau