"This is a common experience in my..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.”

“There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.”

“Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.”

“Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.”

“I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.”

“The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.”

“The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it”

“She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.”

“Joy springs from a life lived with eternity's values in view.”