You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York.... Everything there disappoints me but the crowd; rather, I was disappointed with the rest before I came. I have no eyes for their churches, and what else they find to brag of. Though I know but little about Boston, yet what attracts me, in a quiet way, seems much meaner and more pretending than there,--libraries, pictures, and faces in the street. You don't know where any respectability inhabits.
Henry David ThoreauIt is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
Henry David ThoreauI also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
Henry David ThoreauSo our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
Henry David ThoreauIt takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.
Henry David Thoreau