Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Quotations
Henry David Thoreau
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
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 have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
