You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
Henry David ThoreauWe are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
Henry David ThoreauMany old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
Henry David ThoreauA person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau