It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David ThoreauEvery sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.
Henry David ThoreauThe object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.
Henry David ThoreauBooks are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
Henry David ThoreauFriends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David ThoreauI believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
Henry David Thoreau