Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

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.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Pity the man who has a character to support – it is worse than a large family – he is silent poor indeed.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

Being is the great explainer.

When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

The money men make lives after them.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.