"The broadest and most prevalent error requires..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Any sincere thought is irresistible.”

“But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.”

“As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.”

“Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.”

“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.”

“All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.”

“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.”

“There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.”