Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Experience Quotes, Life Quotes

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you...

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you...

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man...

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man...

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a...

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a...

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I...

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I...

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use...

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use...

We hate the kindness which we understand.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

We live but a fraction of our lives

$We live but a fraction of our lives$

This American government what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to...

This American government what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to...

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places...

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places...

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to...

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to...

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even...

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even...

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded...

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...