I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
Henry David ThoreauWe should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.
Henry David ThoreauI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau