"This life is not for complaint, but..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.”

“He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past”

“Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.”

“The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.”

“Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.”

“Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.”

“The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”

“And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.”

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”