"Wherever men have lived, there is a..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told
More by Henry David Thoreau
“The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.”
“When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.”
“It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.”
More on Humanity
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.”
“It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.”
“I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.”
More on History
“Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!”
“Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.”
“I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.”