I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master’s premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief.
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him keep step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
“What are you doing now?” he (Ralph Waldo Emerson) asked. “Do you keep a journal?” So I make my first entry today.
It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the devil work hard.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
