Henry David Thoreau — "Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generatio…"

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."

"The greatest of evils is to be guilty of none."

"Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, 'What's the news?' as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give him the news as if t…"

"I have yet to hear a man confess that he had no time for a walk."