The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
Henry David ThoreauIn some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.
Henry David ThoreauThey take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.
Henry David ThoreauBe wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David ThoreauI learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau