"He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.”

“If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.”

“Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.”

“True wit never made us laugh.”

“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”

“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.”

“What can be explained is not poetry.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.”