When he read James Wilkinson's book The Human Body in 1851, Thoreau was impressed. Wilkinson's book, he wrote in his journal, to some extent realizes what I have dreamed of, -a return to the primitive...
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
The eye is the jewel of the body.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted.
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice? What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any politi...
I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood
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