"The life of a good man will..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.”

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”

“Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor.They do not speak a good word for her. Most cry better than they speak, and you can get more nature out of them by pinching than by addressing them. The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. Better that the primrose by the river's brim be a yellow primrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less.”

“To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.”

“Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.”

“Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

“But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.”

“Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.”

“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”