Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this,….

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law..

A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped….

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour..

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude..

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe..

I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and t….

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard ….

The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line,….

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open..

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life..

When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and….

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of….

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain..

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but ….

Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds h….

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the m….

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision..

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark..

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for ….

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at….