"Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.”

“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.”

“I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.”

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

“Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.”

“Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.”

“Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.”

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“Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!”