Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?
Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
Henry David Thoreau
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
The universe is wider than our views of it.
One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Goering
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
Johann von Goethe
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
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