What I am must make you forget what I wear. - Henry David Thoreau

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

In fact, no work can be shirked. It may be postponed indefinitely, but not infinitely.