It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David ThoreauWhat great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?
Henry David ThoreauI never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
Henry David ThoreauIf the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
Henry David Thoreau