"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#New York Quotes #Mean Quotes #Boston Quotes

“Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.”
“False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.”
“After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.”

Source : William Lilly (1822). “William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681”, p.44
“I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.”
“When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.”

Source : "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.
“I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.”
“Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.”
“Day by day, what you do is who you become.”

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