Newcastle

   QUOTES

• “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next  excursion"

• "In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line." 
• "If you have built castles in the air,
  your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.Now put the foundations under them."
• "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong,
  as when you find a trout in the milk."
• "The frontiers are not east or west, north or south,
  but wherever a man "fronts" a fact."
• "Live free, child of the mist,
  -- and with respect to knowledge we are all
  children of the mist."
• "Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
  Any truth is better than make-believe."
• "What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
 
•  "When I hear a grown man or woman say, 'Once I had faith in men; now I have not,' I am inclined to ask, 'Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?'."