Quotes about Reflection
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
— Henry David Thoreau
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
— Henry David Thoreau
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.
— Henry David Thoreau
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
— Herman Melville
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
— Herman Melville
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
— Herman Melville
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
— John Ortberg
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
— John Updike
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
— Charles Spurgeon