The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Quotations
Henry David Thoreau
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
