"Men talk of freedom! How many are..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.”

“I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.”

“Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.”

“Having money is a way of being free of money.”

“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.”

“When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.”

“We do more talking progress than we do progressing.”

“A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.”

“People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.”