Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
Henry David ThoreauThe poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.
Henry David ThoreauSome show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?
Henry David ThoreauWe often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.
Henry David Thoreau