There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.
Henry David ThoreauBooks, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Henry David ThoreauHow could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David ThoreauGenerally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.
Henry David Thoreau