I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
Henry David ThoreauI love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
Henry David ThoreauIf a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
Henry David ThoreauThe mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.
Henry David Thoreau