"Be true to your work, your word,..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.”
“As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”
“Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”
More on Integrity
“Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.”
“By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.”
“There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.”
More on Faithfulness
“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
“You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...”
“I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.”