in Thoreau’s Journal:

December 5, 1852

Rowed over Walden! A dark, but warm, misty day, completely overcast.

December 5, 1856

I love best to have each thing in its season only, and enjoy doing without it at all other times. It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I find it invariably true, the poorer I am, the richer I am.