"I am a good horse to travel,..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.”
“Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.”
“By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.”
More on Individuality
“You are constantly invited to be what you are.”
“I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.”
“Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.”
More on Travel
“Travel is lethal to prejudice.”
“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.”
“...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.”