Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. Henry David Thoreau
Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business. Henry David Thoreau
To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet. Henry David Thoreau
He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. Henry David Thoreau