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
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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
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David Thoreau