If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
Henry David ThoreauEven the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
Henry David ThoreauThere is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David ThoreauBut why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.
Henry David Thoreau