Henry David Thoreau

He needs not only to spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.

You did not invent it; it was imposed on you. Examine your authority.

Give me simple laboring folk,
Who love their work,
Whose virtue is a song
To cheer God along.

The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker could have better done.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal.
These are passages of affection that anticipate heaven for us.

My love must be as free
    As is the eagle's wing,
Hovering o'er land and sea
    And everything.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.