I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
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 ThoreauGood religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
Henry David ThoreauThe life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.
Henry David Thoreau