Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We...

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We...

We live but a fraction of our lives

$We live but a fraction of our lives$

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...

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Faith never makes a confession.

Faith never makes a confession.

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God...

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God...

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for...

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for...

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere...

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere...

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things....

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things....

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.