Be not simply good - be good for something.
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.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
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.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
