We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
Henry David ThoreauLook not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
Henry David ThoreauWe need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
Henry David ThoreauThis whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?
Henry David ThoreauI was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?
Henry David Thoreau