Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. >>

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the >>

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wron >>

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work ar >>

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's >>

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Thoreau, Henry David