"Our houses are such unwieldy property that..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.”

“The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.”

“Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.”

“If a man owns land,the land owns him.”

“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.”

“The plague of gold strikes far and near.”

“I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.”

“It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.”

“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.”