The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Quotations
Henry David Thoreau
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
