Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. >>

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American go >>

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

Quotations about Trains

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through >>

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. I >>

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and >>

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

Thoreau, Henry David