Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clou >>

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. >>

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and >>

Quotations about Books - Classics

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once >>

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers a >>

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rul >>

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Thoreau, Henry David