I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
Henry David ThoreauHe who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.
Henry David ThoreauThe fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
Henry David ThoreauPhilosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest.
Henry David Thoreau