The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
From Henry David Thoreau
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
15 perspectives
12 perspectives
10 perspectives
9 perspectives
8 perspectives
2 perspectives