How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Quotations
Henry David Thoreau
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.
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.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
