The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.
Henry David ThoreauI have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
Henry David ThoreauThere is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
Henry David Thoreau