Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?
Henry David ThoreauHomeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
Henry David ThoreauUnpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.
Henry David ThoreauSome would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
Henry David ThoreauThe wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,--others merely sensible, as the phrase is,--others prophetic.
Henry David Thoreau