A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David ThoreauTruth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
Henry David ThoreauThere have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.
Henry David ThoreauEx oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.
Henry David ThoreauThe fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
Henry David Thoreau