David Quotes

Nature's solution to pollution is dilution.

Start working on whatever you hesitate Because there is an ending to every beginning. When you make it to the end, You will realize the hesitation was a waste of time.

Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

There's no heart like the Indian heart.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

Things don't change. We change.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Any sincere thought is irresistible.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

Write while the heat is in you.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

That grand old poem called Winter

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.