"I never knew, and shall never know, a worse man than myself."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
"When we are unhurried and wise, we shall perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but shadows of the reality."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
"In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and we need fear no change or accident."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
