Food for Thought

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
~Henry David Thoreau

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
~John Burroughs

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
~James Oppenheim

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
~Samuel Johnson

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
~Henry David Thoreau

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
~John Buchan

There is one thing stronger that all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
~Victor Hugo