"We say justly that the weak person..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.”

“The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.”

“Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.”

“Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death”

“You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with”

“Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.”

“It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.”

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”