Henry David Thoreau Quote

These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!


A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers (ed. 1866)


These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be...

These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be...

These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be...

These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be...