Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Henry David ThoreauMany men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David ThoreauLiterary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.
Henry David Thoreau