“Goodness is only the investment that never fails.” -- Henry David Thoreau

 What this quote is saying is that when you do something good you are investing something positive into your life. When you do something that is good you will be thanked and you will feel good about what you did. When you do something good you are choosing the right and when you choose the right nothing bad can happen or nothing can go wrong because you are doing what it is right and not what is wrong. If you just do good things without even thinking about them then people will thank you for what you did and when they thank you will feel good about yourself. For example let’s say your friend doesn’t understand the biology homework so she didn’t do it and she asks you for the answers so she can copy you and do her homework, but you think about it and you can either help her and explain the homework to her or you can give her your homework so she can copy and you will get a bad a grade on your homework because you let her copy.