I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.
Henry David ThoreauIt is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David ThoreauI should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
Henry David ThoreauI should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.
Henry David ThoreauI mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.
Henry David Thoreau