A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.
Henry David ThoreauIt is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David ThoreauEvery blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
Henry David ThoreauWoe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.
Henry David Thoreau