The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.
Henry David ThoreauCultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Henry David ThoreauNations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?
Henry David ThoreauIt is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.
Henry David Thoreau