Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington