"A man of fine perceptions is more..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.”

“If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.”

“Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.”

“I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.”

“Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.”

“Time is an illusion-to orators.”

“"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."”

“I was always a lover of soft-winged things.”

“I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.”