Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?
Henry David ThoreauWho knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?
Henry David ThoreauThe still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
Henry David ThoreauExaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.
Henry David Thoreau