"To be in company, even with the..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.”

“The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.”

“What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!”

“To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.”

“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”

“Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.”

“For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.”

“I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.”

“Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.”