I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time ...and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell me no more how fair she is, I have no minde to hear... The story of that distant bliss I never shall come near: By sad experience I have found That her perfection is my wound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose;... For in your beauty's orient deep These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.
Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day; For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more ...pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does?... The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could no...t spare any more time for that one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One afternoon, near the end of the first summer, when I went to the village to get a shoe from the cobbler's, I was seized and put... into jail, because, as I have elsewhere related, I did not pay a tax to, or recognize the authority of, the State which buys and sells men, women, and children, like cattle, at the door of its senate-house. I had gone down to the woods for other purposes. But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might have resisted forcibly with more or less effect, might have run "amok" against society; but I preferred that society should run "amok" against me, it being the desperate party. However, I was released the next day, obtained my mended shoe, and returned to the woods in season to get my dinner of huckleberries on Fair Haven Hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the history of human inquiry, philosophy has the place of the initial central sun, seminal and tumultuous; from time to time it... throws of some portion of itself to take station as a science, a planet, cool and well regulated, progressing steadily towards a distant final state.... Is it not possible that the next century may see the birth, through the joint efforts of philosophers, grammarians, and numerous other students of language, of a true and comprehensive science of language? Then we shall have rid ourselves of one more part of philosophy (there will still be plenty left) in the only way we ever can get rid of philosophy, by kicking it upstairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are no lower or higher or median moralities. There is only one morality, and it is precisely the one that was given to us du...ring the time of Jesus Christ and that stops me, you and Barantsevich from stealing, offending others, lying etc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no... work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »