The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Quotations
Henry David Thoreau
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
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.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
