"You cannot hear music and noise at..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”

“It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.”

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

“How slow and still the time did drag along.”

“Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.”

“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.”

“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”

“Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.”

“Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”