I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
Henry David ThoreauSuch is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
Henry David ThoreauThat virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Henry David Thoreau