On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.
Henry David ThoreauIt is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
Henry David ThoreauWoe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.
Henry David Thoreau