Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Brothers

• I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Peace, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1710, Delphi Classics

• Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Brother, Children

• The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Air, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

• The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Iron

• Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
  Aim above morality.
  Be not simply good;
  be good for something.
  All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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