Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Henry David ThoreauTo make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David ThoreauThe life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.
Henry David Thoreau