The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
Henry David ThoreauIt is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Henry David ThoreauAs I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.
Henry David ThoreauI have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
Henry David Thoreau