Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear. >>

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and >>

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state fac >>

Quotations about Inspiration

I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was al >>

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and te >>

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, ther >>

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Thoreau, Henry David