Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attentio >>

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative >>

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the Stat >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing yo >>

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read th >>

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written >>

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Thoreau, Henry David