I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. - "Henry David Thoreau"

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Henry David Thoreau

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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
- Henry David Thoreau
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
- Henry David Thoreau