A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.
Henry David ThoreauFaint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.
Henry David ThoreauWhere there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
Henry David ThoreauConcord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.
Henry David Thoreau