The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
Henry David ThoreauSo near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.
Henry David ThoreauHence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.
Henry David ThoreauAs long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
Henry David Thoreau