"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.… - Henry David Thoreau

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

There is no such thing as pure objective observation. Your observations, to be interesting, i.e. to be significant, must be subjective. The sum of what the writer of whatever class has to report is simply some human experience, whether he be poet or philosopher or man of science.

let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.