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In rivers the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present. - [Time : Last : First] Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. - [Mind] O time, thou that consumest all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years, little by little, in slow death! Helen, when she looked in the mirror and was the withered wrinkles which old age had made in her face, wept, and wondered to herself why she ever had been twice carried away. - [Time] Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. - from his notebooks [Mind]
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