Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled t >>

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom >>

Of what significance are the things you can forget. >>

Quotations about Generations

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty ge >>

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before >>

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by >>

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Thoreau, Henry David