"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." ― Henry David Thoreau Topic(s): Life Tags: affect, quality More From Henry David Thoreau "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." "The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free." "All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." More In Life "The purpose of life is a life of purpose."― Robert Byrne "Children make your life important."― Erma Bombeck "If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."― Leo Tolstoy