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Henry David Thoreau

 Walden

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all

He has no time to be any­thing but a ma­chine.

Prac­ti­cally, the old have no very im­por­tant ad­vice to give the young, their own ex­pe­ri­ence has been so par­tial, and their lives have been such mis­er­able fail­ures, for pri­vate rea­sons, as they must be­lieve; and it may be that they have some faith left which be­lies that ex­pe­ri­ence, and they are only less young than they were.

What a man thinks of him­self, that it is which de­ter­mines, or rather in­di­cates, his fate.

dis­com­fi­ture

mag­na­nim­ity

Inde genus du­rum sumus, ex­pe­rien­sque labo­rum,
Et doc­u­menta damus qua simus orig­ine nati.

The finest qual­i­ties of our na­ture, like the bloom on fruits, can be pre­served only by the most del­i­cate han­dling.

stereo­typed but un­con­scious de­spair is con­cealed even un­der what are called the games and amuse­ments of mankind.

in­jur­ing eter­nity.