Who said “The sun is but a morning star.”?

“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”

“The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.”

“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”

“Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.”

“That government is best which governs least.”

“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.”

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

“Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.”