Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. >>

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in i >>

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized c >>

Quotations about Mathematics

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which >>

Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between br >>

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty >>

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.

Thoreau, Henry David