Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.
Henry David ThoreauThe United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.
Henry David ThoreauOne attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.
Henry David ThoreauEven Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
Henry David Thoreau