While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.
Henry David ThoreauWherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
Henry David ThoreauWealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.
Henry David ThoreauThe fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
Henry David ThoreauI have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David Thoreau