If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David ThoreauThe present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.
Henry David ThoreauThe ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
Henry David Thoreau