Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight…

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

— Henry David Thoreau

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps…

— Henry David Thoreau

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

— Henry David Thoreau

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.”

— Henry David Thoreau

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up…

— Henry David Thoreau

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower,…

— Henry David Thoreau

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted…

— Henry David Thoreau

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.”

— Lebo Grand