If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
Henry David ThoreauAs the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.
Henry David ThoreauI hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?
Henry David ThoreauThe true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.
Henry David ThoreauThe volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Henry David ThoreauWe are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.
Henry David Thoreau