"Children, who play life, discern its true..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?”

“What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?”

“A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.”

“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”

“A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.”

“Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.”

“Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.”

“What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?”

“Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.”