Famous quotes containing the words henry david thoreau, henry david, henry, david, thoreau and/or years:
“Simplify, simplify.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Live free, child of the mist,—and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
“Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair,—apples not of Discord, but of Concord!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The earth is all alive and covered with papillæ.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Governor of Massachusetts,—what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)