Henry David Thoreau

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Branching streams cannot compare to the source.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.