"Truths and roses have thorns about them...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.”

“Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.”

“Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.”

“Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?”

“Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.”

“Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.”

“Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.”

“Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.”

“I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.”