Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
Henry David ThoreauWhat is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David ThoreauWe only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.
Henry David ThoreauThere is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.
Henry David ThoreauIf a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
Henry David Thoreau