"We can conceive of nothing more fair..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

“We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.”

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.”

“Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.”

“I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.”

“When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”

“Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.”

“Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.”

“We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.”