The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.
Henry David ThoreauIn my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David ThoreauI fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
Henry David ThoreauThey who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.
Henry David Thoreau