"New earths, new themes expect us...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.”

“How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk it, as is usually done.It is the most important and practical question which is put to man. Let us not answer it hastily. Let us not be content to get our bread in some gross, careless, and hasty manner. Some men go a-hunting, some a-fishing, some a-gaming, some to war; but none have so pleasant a time as they who in earnest seek to earn their bread.”

“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.”

“You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.”

“Many people say “my life stinks”. Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.”

“People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.”

“Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.”

“You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.”

“Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.”