What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
Henry David ThoreauThe orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.
Henry David ThoreauThe order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau