All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.
Henry David ThoreauNature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
Henry David ThoreauNo way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
Henry David ThoreauWhen I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?
Henry David ThoreauHence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.
Henry David Thoreau