The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.
Henry David ThoreauI delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.
Henry David ThoreauIf the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
Henry David ThoreauIn the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
Henry David ThoreauGardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
Henry David ThoreauIt is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.
Henry David Thoreau