Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.
Henry David ThoreauThe true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
Henry David Thoreau