The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. Henry David Thoreau, book

Everything terrible is something that needs our love. Rilke

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children–unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek. Bill...

Reality is only just a word. Harry Chapin

Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice… Marquis de Sade, Justine

Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you. Louis Keisler

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived,...