Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?
Henry David ThoreauHe who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
Henry David ThoreauSome show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?
Henry David Thoreau