More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.
  2. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
  3. What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
  4. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amou…
  5. As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and …
  6. Simplify, simplify.
  7. The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
  8. A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest …

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