"The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature,..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.”

“New earths, new themes expect us.”

“The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?”

“The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.”

“Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.”

“When you are in debt, then you are a slave.”

“Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.”

“Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot reach the Long Wall we are not true men. On my fingers I count the twenty thousand li we have already marched. On the summit of Liupan the west wind lazily ripples our red banner. Today we have the long rope in our hands. When will we tie up the gray dragon of the seven stars?”

“The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.”