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For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and
rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.
Topic: Storms
Source: Walden
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Topic: Success
Source: None
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Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Topic: Superstition
Source: None
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Topic: Suspicion
Source: None
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Topic: Suspicion
Source: None
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Topic: Time
Source: None
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Topic: Time
Source: None
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The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a
trout in the milk.
Topic: Trout
Source: Journal
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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.
Topic: Trust
Source: None
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A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Topic: Unconscious
Source: None
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Topic: Universe
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Vegetarianism
Source: None
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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
Topic: Vice
Source: None
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Topic: Vision
Source: None
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All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
Topic: Voting
Source: None
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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
Topic: Waking
Source: None
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Topic: Waste
Source: None
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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
Topic: Worth
Source: None
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