"If you would be chaste, you must..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”

“If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.”

“I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.”

“Swallowing angry words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterwards.”

“Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.”

“No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.”

“It is higher and nobler to be kind.”

“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.”

“Withal I did infer your lineaments,Being the right idea of your father,Both in your form and nobleness of mind;Laid open all your victories in Scotland,Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purposeUntouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.”