I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
Henry David ThoreauI have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
Henry David ThoreauOn the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.
Henry David Thoreau