“Do not be swept away by new slogans and leaders who had a doubtful past. Do not fritter away your time and energy in encouraging or participating in mushroom parties an organizations.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Variant: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Source: Walden and Other Writings

Source: Wuthering Heights

Milwaukee Social Democratic Publishing Co. v. Burleson, 255 U.S. 407, 431 (1921).
Extra-judicial writings

Basic Education (1951) p. 89
Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
Context: Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

Rothko, explaining Seitz his new way of painting during the mid-1940s
Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 142
after 1970, posthumous

Referring to the National Party's problems with internal discipline and Robert Muldoon's reluctance to relinquish power.
Source: Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.

IV, 43
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

Source: Lilith