"For my part, I could easily do..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.”

“It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak, feel their mortality, and think that they have measured the strength of man. They will not boast; they will be frank and humble. Well, let them have the few poor comforts they can keep. Humility is still a very human virtue. They look back on life, and so see not into the future. The prospect of the young is forward and unbounded, mingling the future with the present.”

“Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.”

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.”

“For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.”

“What a lot of things there are a man can do without.”

“The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.”