Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be >>

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is re >>

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon >>

Quotations about Institutions

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. I >>

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making conc >>

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wea >>

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.

Thoreau, Henry David