"A little thought is sexton to all..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.”

“The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.”

“We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.”

“Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.”

“Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.”

“Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.”

“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

“Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.”

“Presence is a result of confidence. Presence... when we see it we feel it.”