True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.Henry David Thoreau
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.Henry David Thoreau
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.Henry David Thoreau
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.Henry David Thoreau
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.Henry David Thoreau
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.Henry David Thoreau
