The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David ThoreauThe life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.
Henry David ThoreauBut labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.
Henry David Thoreau