"The success of great scholars and thinkers..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.”

“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.”

“Politics is but a narrow field.”

“A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.”

“Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.”

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

“Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.”

“To connect with people, be yourself, at your best.”

“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”