In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
Henry David ThoreauGood religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
Henry David ThoreauThe principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here." (Not yours.) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience.
Henry David Thoreau