Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
Henry David ThoreauWithin the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.
Henry David ThoreauIn my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
Henry David ThoreauCertainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.
Henry David Thoreau