Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Henry David ThoreauIn the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
Henry David ThoreauThough the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
Henry David ThoreauMen sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
Henry David Thoreau