"As for Doing-good, that is one of..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”

“The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”

“Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.”

“When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.”

“My life is only important if i can help plenty of people”

“I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.”

“The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.”

“Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.”

“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.”