"It is said that a rogue does..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I would stand upon facts.”

“I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.”

“Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?”

“When you make a promise, keep it.”

“None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.”

“I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.”

“If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.”

“Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.”

“Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.”