Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
Henry David ThoreauThere is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Henry David ThoreauIn my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
Henry David ThoreauMen have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David ThoreauTrue, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
Henry David Thoreau