"It often happens that a man is..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”

“Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.”

“The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.”

“Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.”

“I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.”

“When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom”

“Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.”

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.”

“You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!”