Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.

But now I see I was not plucked for naught,
And after in life's vase
Of glass set while I might survive,
But by a kind hand brought
Alive
To a strange place.

In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.