"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend." ― Henry David Thoreau Topic(s): Friendship Tags: cannot, succeed More From Henry David Thoreau "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." "Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?" "What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?" More In Friendship "What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship."― Andrew Sullivan "A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."― Lucius Annaeus Seneca