The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
Henry David ThoreauThe oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
Henry David ThoreauThe true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
Henry David ThoreauI have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find, however, that in the long run things correspond to my original idea,--that they correspond to nothing else so much; and thus a man may really be a true prophet without any great exertion. The day is never so dark, nor the night even, but that the laws at least of light still prevail, and so may make it light in our minds if they are open to the truth.
Henry David Thoreau