I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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