I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Henry David ThoreauSummer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
Henry David ThoreauTruth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.
Henry David ThoreauPriests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.
Henry David Thoreau