So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.
Henry David ThoreauThose undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.
Henry David ThoreauIt will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterredby such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation.
Henry David ThoreauI do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
Henry David Thoreau