Henry David Thoreau

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

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

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.