Success by Henry David Thoreau
What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
Henry David ThoreauIt is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Henry David ThoreauIt is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David ThoreauIt takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.
Henry David ThoreauI have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Henry David ThoreauIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David ThoreauWhat is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David ThoreauBeware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Henry David ThoreauI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.
Henry David ThoreauBeing is the great explainer.
Henry David ThoreauIt is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
Henry David ThoreauIf we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David ThoreauIt is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David ThoreauThe language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David ThoreauWhy should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David ThoreauWhat men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Henry David ThoreauI derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
Henry David ThoreauThe finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Henry David ThoreauThere is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David ThoreauAll 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.
Henry David Thoreau
