Insane!… Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane? — Henry David Thoreau
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. — Henry David Thoreau
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. — Henry David Thoreau
The artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of genius — Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it — Henry David Thoreau
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. — Henry David Thoreau
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. — Henry David Thoreau