The season of flowers or of promise may be said to be over, and now is the season of fruits; but where is our fruit? The night of the year is approac… - Henry David Thoreau

Never endeavor consciously to supply the tone which you think proper for certain sentences. It is as if a man whose mind was at ease should supply the tones and gestures for a man in distress who found only the words; as when one makes a speech and another behind him makes gestures.

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.

The wood-sawyer, through his effort to do his work well, becomes not merely a better wood-sawyer, but measurably a better man.