Matthew

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.”
― MARK TWAIN

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman