Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David Thoreau

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Henry David Thoreau

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Henry David Thoreau

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Henry David Thoreau

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
Warren Buffett

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren Buffett

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
Warren Buffett

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Warren Buffett

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Lao Tzu