Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.
Henry David ThoreauThose undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.
Henry David ThoreauI think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.
Henry David ThoreauThe sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
Henry David ThoreauWe belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
Henry David Thoreau