"When we are in health, all sounds..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”

“Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.”

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

“It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.”

“Cancer research is a growth industry.”

“Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.”

“It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.”

“Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.”

“Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.”