Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
Henry David ThoreauWe are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
Henry David ThoreauIt would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.
Henry David ThoreauIf men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?
Henry David Thoreau