Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

We hate the kindness which we understand. >>

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that woul >>

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? >>

Quotations about People, Other

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men >>

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. >>

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we >>

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

Thoreau, Henry David