"Tis now the twenty-third of march,And this..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”

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

“Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.”

“The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.”

“The philosopher is Nature's pilot.”

“The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.”

“Short summers lightly have a forward spring.”

“Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press.”

“The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!”