- "i should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom i knew so well."
- "we must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinte expectation of the dawn, which does not foresake us in our soundest sleep."
- "i have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself."
- "this whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. how far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? why should i feel lonely? is not our planet in the milky way?"
- "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 not spare any more time for that one."
dec 5 2015 ∞
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