Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Business Quotes, Living Quotes

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

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

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined!

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined!

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with,...

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with,...

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you...

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you...

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I...

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I...

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all...

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,...

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a...

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a...

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by...

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by...

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old...

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old...

Fire is the most tolerable third party

Fire is the most tolerable third party

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles...

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles...

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.