The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
Henry David ThoreauThe man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
Henry David ThoreauImpulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
Henry David ThoreauI think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.
Henry David ThoreauIn a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.
Henry David Thoreau