Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not the quacks even direct small doses for children, larger for adults, and larger still for oxen and horses? Let us remember that we are to prescribe for the globe itself.
Henry David ThoreauWhere there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
Henry David ThoreauI have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.
Henry David ThoreauThe morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.
Henry David Thoreau