The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
Henry David ThoreauStill we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
Henry David ThoreauThere have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.
Henry David ThoreauInexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.
Henry David Thoreau