"Of what use the friendliest disposition even,..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves”

“The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.”

“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours,Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,as the leopard; and yet we are so early weanedfrom her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusivelyan interaction of man on man.”

“Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free.”

“Friendship cant end just because you change your life.”

“... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.”

“No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.”

“Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.”

“We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.”