"We must take root; send out some..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.”

“Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.”

“It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.”

“We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.”

“Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.”

“Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.”

“Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.”

“Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.”

“If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.”