What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is never too late to give up your prejudices.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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