"There is more of good nature than..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.”

“I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.”

“Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.”

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

“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.”

“A marriage without children is the world without the sun.”

“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.”

“Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything”

“The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.”