The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
Henry David ThoreauThe meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
Henry David ThoreauI saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
Henry David Thoreau