The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.
Henry David ThoreauWhen the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.
Henry David ThoreauHow prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!
Henry David ThoreauThe most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.
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