Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

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 to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

Henry David Thoreau

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Henry David Thoreau

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

Henry David Thoreau

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Henry David Thoreau

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

Harper Lee

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.