"It would be no reproach to a..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.”

“If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.”

“But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.”

“This moment contains all moments.”

“The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.”

“Probably death is the best invention of life.”

“The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.”

“For the success,Although particular, shall give a scantlingOf good or bad unto the general;And in such indexes, although small pricksTo their subsequent volumes, there is seenThe baby figure of the giant massOf things to come at large.”

“I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them”