The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
From Henry David Thoreau
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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