I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
Henry David ThoreauThe news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
Henry David ThoreauIf we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
Henry David ThoreauThe finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
Henry David ThoreauOur own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?
Henry David Thoreau