"Is the babe young? When I behold..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!”

“A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."”

“Even the best things are not equal to their fame.”

“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”

“The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.”

“The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.”

“You not only do you appreciate the sacrifices people have made and the hours they've kept and the soccer games they missed and the birthday parties, but I also had a lot of young people who came in here [to White House], and this probably, you know, echoes with you, in your own experience, you were young when you got here.”

“Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.”

“The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”