"Be not simply good - be good..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...”

“We live but a fraction of our lives.”

“That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.”

“And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.”

“How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.”

“The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.”

“Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .”

“Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.”