Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.
Henry David ThoreauIt [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.
Henry David ThoreauSteady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.
Henry David Thoreau