If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can...

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and...

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer...

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer...

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the...

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the...

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now...

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now...

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with,...

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with,...

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by...

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by...

If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that...

If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that...

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns...

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns...

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the...

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the...

It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.

It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of...

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of...

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the...

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the...