"Wherever a man goes, men will pursue..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”

“All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.”

“We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of trades and professions by which to get your livelihood merely, was considered worthy of slaves only. But taking a hint from the word, I would go a step further and say, that it is not the man of wealth and leisure simply, though devoted to art, or science, or literature, who, in a true sense, is liberally educated, but only the earnest and free man.”

“The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.”

“What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?”

“If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y”

“Sanity is not statistical.”

“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”

“We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.”