If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living fo… - Henry David Thoreau

A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

A traveller! I love his title. A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from ___ toward ___; it is the history of every one of us.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men? — if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?