Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
Henry David ThoreauHe is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
Henry David ThoreauI love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
Henry David ThoreauWhat wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
Henry David ThoreauIt is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.
Henry David ThoreauEvery man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Henry David Thoreau