Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Quotations
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
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.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
