I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
Henry David ThoreauYou ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring.
Henry David ThoreauThere are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau