"Let every man make known what kind..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.”

“A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.”

“People die of fright and live of confidence.”

“Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.”

“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”

“The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.”

“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.”

“I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.”

“When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.”