Wherever a man goes men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions. - Henry David Thoreau

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk and leaves; but I shall perhaps be enabled to speak with the more precision and authority by and by, —if philosophy and sentiment are not buried under a multitude of details.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic.