If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
Henry David ThoreauHe may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
Henry David ThoreauO how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
Henry David ThoreauIt is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.
Henry David Thoreau