HENRY D. THOREAU GLEANINGS OR WHAT TIME HAS NOT REAPED OF MY JOURNAL
Reading edition
[The small manuscript volume bearing on its first fly-leaf the legend printed on the preceding page is evidently a transcript of unused passages in the early journals, and this is also the case with several succeeding small volumes. See note on page 342. The following mottoes occupy the next three pages of the book.]
"By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou find'st there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind." Herbert, The Church Porch.
"Friends and companions, get you gone! 'Tis my desire to be alone; Ne'er well, but when my thoughts and I Do domineer in privacy." Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy.
"Two Paradises are in one, To live in Paradise alone." Marvell, The Garden.
Henry David Thoreau in 1854, from the Rowse Crayon in the Concord Public Library
THE JOURNAL OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU