"Speech is for the convenience of those..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.”

“Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.”

“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?”

“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”

“One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.”

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”

“Language is wine upon the lips.”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”