Henry David Thoreau — "Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!"

"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

"We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so."

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpecte…"

"No man ever had a more agreeable dwelling place than this. It was a proper palace, a fit abode for a king."

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."