Henry David Thoreau

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The memory of a day like today reminds me to hold the ones I love that much tighter, that much longer… Take that much more time to be present and to feel the blessing of another day…

I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Never do wrong when people are looking.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.