He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days... - Henry David Thoreau

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"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."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."