Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extra vagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
