Henry David Thoreau Peak Quotations

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.