It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
Henry David ThoreauFor if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
Henry David ThoreauWe need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
Henry David ThoreauThe virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
Henry David ThoreauEvery New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.
Henry David Thoreau