"Spending of the best part of one's..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.”

“If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.”

“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”

“If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.”

“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”

“Life is like walking you take one step at a time.”

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”

“Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.”

“There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem tothem worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.”