Henry David Thoreau |
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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.
Every part of nature teaches that the passing away of one life is the making room for another.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.