"I have always endeavored to acquire strict..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.”

“Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.”

“And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is elevation in every hour, as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command an uninterrupted horizon.”

“I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.”

“You can be a business thinker.”

“If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.”

“Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!”

“If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today”

“The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.”