What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.
Henry David ThoreauSome are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David ThoreauThat government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Henry David Thoreau