thoreau for thought

here are a couple of statements that i read last evening from henry david thoreau. interesting food for thought.

talking about a way to live...“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 future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.” oh, to live in the “nick of time.”

talking about progression and status and perceptions and reality...“while civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. it has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.” may i stop looking at the men who live in houses and start to look at the hearts that live in man.