"Love your life, poor as it is...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in thegreat sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also,and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they arecommonly treated as enemies by it.”

“Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.”

“What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.”

“Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.”

“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.”

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force.”

“In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.”

“If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.”

“Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.”