Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of math >>

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

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain. >>

Quotations about Grammar

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the >>

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at t >>

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. >>

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

Thoreau, Henry David