2 Qoutes from Henry David Thoreau

Quote 1: "Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."

I believe this quote means that you should awake every morning without any worries or stress, only intent on the day ahead, no unnatural emotions in your head. You should also be happy with the simplicity of waking up, when nothing clouds your mind and nothing is happening. It also means that you should be in tune with nature whenever you have a free minute.


Quote 2: "Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep."

I think this goes in conjunction with an earlier statement: "To be awake is to be alive." It basically says that people are trying to justify their existance by putting guidelines into place. It pokes fun at laws and codes and says that it doesn't prove that the creators of these laws are alive. The moral reform tries to supress nature, and Thoreau doesn't like it at all.