"If you would get exercise, go in..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.”

“Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging.”

“It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.”

“The influence of a vital being vitalizes.”

“We save the world by being alive ourselves.”

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves”

“Never settle for the crumbs of life.”

“Let our lives be open books for all to study.”

“After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.”