How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Quotations
Henry David Thoreau
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
