Henry David Thoreau

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.