In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the chรขteau, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.
Henry David ThoreauWhat wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
Henry David ThoreauIt is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak, feel their mortality, and think that they have measured the strength of man. They will not boast; they will be frank and humble. Well, let them have the few poor comforts they can keep. Humility is still a very human virtue. They look back on life, and so see not into the future. The prospect of the young is forward and unbounded, mingling the future with the present.
Henry David ThoreauThe true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.
Henry David Thoreau