The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
Henry David ThoreauI have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
Henry David ThoreauAn Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a member of the royal regiment of Englishmen, and is proud of his company, as he has reason to be proud of it. But an American--one who has made tolerable use of his opportunities--cares, comparatively, little about such things, and is advantageously nearer to the primitive and the ultimate condition of man in these respects.
Henry David Thoreau