"While my friend was my friend, he..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not adistance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,--nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon.”

“If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.”

“Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

“The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it”

“The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.”

“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”

“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”

“Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”