"A man may acquire a taste for..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.”

“Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.”

“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”

“Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.”

“Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.”

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”

“I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.”

“Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!”

“No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.”