"Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.”

“Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusion; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed.”

“In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.”

“I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.”

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”

“It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.”

“Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.”

“It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.”

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”