"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." ― Henry David Thoreau Topic(s): Best Tags: books, first More From Henry David Thoreau "A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend." "While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings." "The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles." More In Best "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."― William Butler Yeats "Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."― Jean de la Bruyere