While sitting in this cozy Charleston cafe I came across this in one of the books on the shelf:
On Thoreau..."he seemed stubborn and implacable; always manly and wise, but rarely sweet. One would say that, as Webster could never speak without and antagonist, so Henry does not feel himself except in opposition. He wants fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, requires little sense of victory, a roll of the drums, to call his powers into full exercise." {1853} Emerson
