Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Henry David ThoreauThe echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.
Henry David ThoreauI have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
Henry David ThoreauOur taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
Henry David Thoreau