Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.Henry David Thoreau
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.Henry David Thoreau
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.Henry David Thoreau
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.Henry David Thoreau
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.Henry David Thoreau
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.Henry David Thoreau
