This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it. Henry David Thoreau
Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances. Henry David Thoreau
I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant. Henry David Thoreau
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? Henry David Thoreau