Famous quotes containing the words henry david thoreau, henry david, david, thoreau and/or years:
“We should be slow to mend, my friends, as slow to require mending.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Give me time enough, and I may like it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”
—Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898)