"We must look a long time before..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.”

“If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.”

“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

“Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.”

“Thought is a means of concealing Truth.”

“Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.”

“The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.”

“People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.”

“The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.”