"I would that I were worthy to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.”

“Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.”

“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”

“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”

“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”

“Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.”

“I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.”

“I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.”

“Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.”