If 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 ThoreauAlmost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
Henry David ThoreauI sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David ThoreauCompliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.
Henry David ThoreauIf a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.
Henry David Thoreau