The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
Henry David ThoreauThe imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
Henry David ThoreauThe church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.
Henry David ThoreauWhen we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.
Henry David Thoreau