Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a convers >>

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. >>

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a sl >>

Quotations about Profits

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. >>

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one s >>

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he ca >>

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

Thoreau, Henry David