They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
Henry David ThoreauThe whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.
Henry David ThoreauIt is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.
Henry David Thoreau