Secrets/literature

Famous quotes containing the words secrets and/or literature:

“The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)