There 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 ThoreauWhen I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"
Henry David ThoreauIf you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David ThoreauThe merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.
Henry David Thoreau