Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the ma >>

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, >>

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, >>

Quotations about Body

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages si >>

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness go >>

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It >>

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

Thoreau, Henry David