Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.