"Between whom there is hearty truth there..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.”

“The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.”

“The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.”

“Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.”

“The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.”

“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you”

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.”

“If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.”

“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”