The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Henry David Thoreau
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.Henry David Thoreau
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.Henry David Thoreau
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.J. K. Rowling
