I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...
Henry David ThoreauIf we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.
Henry David ThoreauI think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.
Henry David ThoreauThe sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.
Henry David Thoreau