How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David ThoreauAs a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
Henry David ThoreauSurely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.
Henry David ThoreauIt must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.
Henry David ThoreauThe tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry intotheir secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,--their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb the summit of Ktaadn.
Henry David Thoreau