Famous quotes containing the words character and/or face:
“The character of the logger’s admiration is betrayed by his very mode of expressing it.... He admires the log, the carcass or corpse, more than the tree.... What right have you to celebrate the virtues of the man you murdered?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)