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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life .. 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.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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.
- all quotes on this page by Thoreau
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