I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.
Henry David ThoreauThere are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
Henry David ThoreauI think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.
Henry David ThoreauAfter all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
Henry David Thoreau