Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large >>

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout >>

Men have become the tools of their trade. >>

Quotations about Editing and Editors

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm >>

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. >>

There is but one art, to omit. >>

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Thoreau, Henry David