"I wished only to be set down..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

“We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.”

“Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.”

“The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.”

“Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.”

“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”

“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.”

“The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.”

“The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.”