Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Source: Walden, Higher Laws, 1854.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.