"The most difficult thing to understand during..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.”

“We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.”

“Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.”

“The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.”

“No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.”

“It is the man determines what is said, not the words.”

“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.”