Henry David Thoreau

There is more day to dawn.

The sun is but a morning star.

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy,

and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal.

That is your success.

All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.

I learned this, at least by my experiment, that if one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life which they have imagined, they will meet with the success unexpected in common hours.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost.

That is where they should be.

Now, put the foundations under them.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated.

We easily come to doubt if they exist.

We soon forget them.

They are the highest reality.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated.

rather than love, than money, than fame.

Give me truth.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I drink at it.

But while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.