"We know but a few men, a..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.”

“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.”

“Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?”

“The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.”

“people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them”

“That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!”

“To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.”

“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.”

“Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.”