Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
Henry David ThoreauThe three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
Henry David ThoreauA true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.
Henry David Thoreau