I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David ThoreauYou cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
Henry David ThoreauI have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
Henry David ThoreauBoth place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
Henry David ThoreauShow me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.
Henry David Thoreau