" If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥24SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
" The world will little note nor long remember what we say here." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥25SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease" ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥29SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts." ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥311SharePinTweet0 SharesFriendshipLife Quotes
" Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations." ~ William James ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic." ~ Albert Camus ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥38SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
" To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" [T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking." ~ William James ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer." ~ Albert Camus ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?" ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." ~ William James ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" [I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners." ~ Albert Camus ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me." ~ Abraham Lincoln ♥25SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902" ~ William James ♥28SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." ~ Albert Camus ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
