I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
Henry David ThoreauFishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
Henry David ThoreauThe fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.
Henry David ThoreauThe indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!
Henry David ThoreauAnd pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?
Henry David ThoreauHow insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect.
Henry David Thoreau