"Your scheme must be the framework of..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.”

“On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.”

“We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.”

“Have a vision. Be demanding.”

“That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.”

“Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.”

“Let each moment be guided by positive purpose. And let your whole life express the beauty of who you truly are.”

“Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.”

“What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?”