Tao Te Ching

“I may venture to say that Thoreau's Walden is overrated; it is too labored... Peattie's A Prairie Grove is a superior literary work, superior not only in accuracy but as writing and in breadth of insight and learning and in philosophy backed by a true scientit's imagination.”

— Lín Yǔtáng 林語堂 1895 – 1976 CE
from On the Wisdom of America, 1950