We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.Henry David Thoreau
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.Henry David Thoreau
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.C. S. Lewis
