"I learned to regard man as an..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.”

“Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.”

“The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.”

“Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!”

“The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.”

“Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.”

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

“Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.”

“With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.”