"I love a life whose plot is..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!”

“Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.”

“In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.”

“Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!”

“When in doubt take a bath”

“If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.”

“We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.”

“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.”

“Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.”