"It is not desirable to cultivate a..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.”

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”

“We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.”

“... justice is mercy's highest self.”

“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

“The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.”

“Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.”

“A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.”

“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”