It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.Henry David Thoreau
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.Henry David Thoreau
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.Henry David Thoreau
