Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
- Topic: Inspiration, Work
- Location: Hana, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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