How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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.
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.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
