"Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.”

“If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?”

“For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.”

“If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.”

“If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.”

“I love thee, and it is my love that speaks”

“Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.”

“We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.”

“Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.”