Private Institutions

Famous quotes containing the words private and/or institutions:

“I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)