"Beware of any profession for which you..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.”

“I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?”

“I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”

“All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.”

“I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.”

“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”

“If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.”

“What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.”