We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
Henry David ThoreauIf all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
Henry David ThoreauWhy do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.
Henry David ThoreauIt is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.
Henry David ThoreauA man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.
Henry David Thoreau