As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.
Henry David ThoreauA familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.
Henry David ThoreauThe ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
Henry David ThoreauAfter all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.
Henry David Thoreau