You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
Henry David ThoreauKindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.
Henry David ThoreauFor what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
Henry David Thoreau