We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- 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.