"I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."

Thoreau, Henry David on Advice
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"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

Thoreau, Henry David on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on Distrust
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on Dreams
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"The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground."

Melville, Herman on Madness
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"When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!"

Melville, Herman on Leaders and Leadership
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