"Both place and time were changed, and..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Count your age with friends but not with years.”

“I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.”

“Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.”

“When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.”

“Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.”

“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.”

“There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.”

“The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.”

“Our country is wherever we are well off.[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]”