Jennifer Halm

“No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems as though the Goliath Corporation is falling far short of its promises of fairness and altruism. We are finding ourselves now in the unfortunate position of continuing to pay back a debt that has long since been paid--with interest...”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript

“When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living... I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods