I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse. - Henry David Thoreau

There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

How fitting to have every day in a vase of water on your table the wildflowers of the season which are just blossoming!

I know many children to whom I would fain make a present on some one of their birthdays, but they are so far gone in the luxury of presents—have such perfect museums of costly ones—that it would absorb my entire earnings for a year to buy them something which would not be beneath their notice.