"Men cannot conceive of a state of..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.”

“The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.”

“Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.”

“The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.”

“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”

“Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.”

“From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.”

“I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”

“May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.”