"Let us first be as simple and..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Politics is but a narrow field.”

“It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.”

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

“It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.”

“Don't you complicate your mindFlee from hate, mischief and jealousy.”

“A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.”

“The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised.”

“If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.”

“There's keen delight in what we have:The rattle of pebbles on the shoreUnder the receding wave.”