Henry David Thoreau
- Walden
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.
Four People
- Four Quotes
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both. Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Marcus Aurelius
- Meditation
Whenever you want to cheer yourself, think of the qualities of your fellows. There is nothing so cheering as the stamp of virtues manifest in the character of colleagues. So keep them ready to hand.
Alexander Hamilton
- Dear Eliza
If it had been possible for me to have avoided the interview, my love for you and my precious children would have been alone a decisive motive. But it was not possible, without sacrifices which would have rendered me unworthy of your esteem. I need not tell you of the pangs I feel, from the idea of quitting you and exposing you to the anguish which I know you would feel. Nor could I dwell on the topic lest it should unman me.
Marcus Aurelius
- Your Own Good
How to understand your own good: the lover of glory takes it to be the reactions of others; the lover of pleasure takes it to be his own passive experience; the intelligent man sees it as his own action.
