Henry David Thoreau |
I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self respect.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him keep step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Every part of nature teaches that the passing away of one life is the making room for another.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.