Date: 1854
"Snipes and woodcocks also may afford rare sport; but I trust it would be nobler game to shoot one’s self."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"Patriotism is a maggot in their heads."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact, that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many tho...
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?"
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"And now he saw by the heap of shavings still fresh at his feet, that, for him and his work, the former lapse of time had been an illusion, and that no more time had elapsed than is required for a single scintillation from the brain of Brahma to fall on and inflame the tinder of a mortal brain."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1858
"His faculties were so well balanced and combined, that his constitution, free from excess, was tempered evenly with all the elements of activity, and his mind resembled a well-ordered commonwealth."
preview | full record— Bancroft, George (1800-1891)
Date: 1869
"His mind resembled chiefly the rugged and outstanding mountain, and yet it had characteristics which reminded you likewise of the gentle stream, flowing sweetly through the valley below."
preview | full record— Sprague, William Buell (1795-1876)
Date: October 10, 1869
"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."
preview | full record— Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)