Single Characters

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or characters:

“The wood for a temple does not come from a single tree.”
—Chinese proverb.

“White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)