"But man's capacities have never been measured;..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“There is no history of how bad became better.”

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

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”

“Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?”

“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.”

“What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”

“I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever.”

“How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.”

“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”