*

"I will now read the traditional opening message from society member. Henry David Thoreau."'Neil opened the book athat Keating had left him and read: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.'" He skipped through the text. "'I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life!'"
 "I'll second that!" Charlie interrupted.
"'To put to rout all that was not life,'" Neil continued, skipping again. "'And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.'"

—Dead Poets Society.
Nancy H. Kleinbaum.