"It requires more than a day's devotion..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.”

“In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.”

“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”

“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”

“Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”

“Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.”

“that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.”

“Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.”

“What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.”