If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
Henry David ThoreauThe tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.
Henry David ThoreauIt is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.
Henry David ThoreauNo man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
Henry David Thoreau