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
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.Henry David Thoreau
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.Henry David Thoreau
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.Henry David Thoreau
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.C. S. Lewis
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.C. S. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
