The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
Henry David ThoreauIt is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
Henry David ThoreauYou think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.
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 Thoreau