Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.
Henry David ThoreauIs the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Henry David ThoreauI delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.
Henry David ThoreauThe success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
Henry David ThoreauI mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.
Henry David Thoreau