"How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.”

“No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.”

“It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.”

“To behold the day-break!The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,The air tastes good to my palate.”

“So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.”

“Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.”

“It doesn't matter what you achieve, if you don't keep growing you'll feel dead.”

“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.”

“Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.”