Quotes on quote

“In the long run men hit only what they aim at.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!”

Henry David Thoreau
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“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property…the landscape is deformed.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

Henry David Thoreau
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