"Take Time by the forelock. It is..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.”

“If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.”

“Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”

“Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.”

“It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.”

“To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.”

“Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.”

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”

“There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.”