I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.
Henry David ThoreauCarlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.
Henry David ThoreauThe whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.
Henry David Thoreau