It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.
Henry David ThoreauIt is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David ThoreauIn Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.
Henry David Thoreau