"The rarest quality in an epitaph is..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“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.”

“I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.”

“Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.”

“It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.”

“Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it”

“Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.”

“To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.”

“What a fool honesty is.”

“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”