Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be cr >>

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written >>

That government is best which governs least. >>

Quotations about Instinct

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more bea >>

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than t >>

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, b >>

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

Thoreau, Henry David