Henry David Thoreau, The Quotable Thoreau Quotes
The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.
The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.
It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.
If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.
I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.