What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?
Henry David ThoreauWhat is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.
Henry David ThoreauAll endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
Henry David ThoreauIt is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau