"Nature is not made after such a..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.”

“One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.”

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

“Love is like wildflowers;It's often found in the most unlikely places.”

“For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.”

“Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.”

“Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.”

“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”

“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”