Famous quotes by Authors

"The squirrel that you kill in jest dies in earnest"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"What is once well done is done forever"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it, and thought of other things if you did"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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