They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?—if you cannot tolerate the planet that it is on? Grade the ground first.
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
He is in the condition of a healthy and hungry man, who says to himself—how sweet this crust is!
—Henry David Thoreau, in a letter to Harrison Blake (20 May, 1860)
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