Tag: Henry David Thoreau

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Henry David Thoreau

---

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Henry David Thoreau

---

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau

---

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

---

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Henry David Thoreau

---

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

---