The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
Henry David ThoreauA thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
Henry David ThoreauWhat men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Henry David ThoreauThe kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
Henry David ThoreauNature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.
Henry David ThoreauA worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.
Henry David Thoreau