A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
Henry David ThoreauWe cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.
Henry David ThoreauHope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
Henry David Thoreau