For my English class I get to do a ten page report on Henry David Thoreau. As I have been doing some research, I have come across some of his quotes. Some of these I think are funny, but some I think are so profound. Just thought I would share a few that I thought were interesting:

"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. "

"The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language. "

"Thank [Goodness] men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. "

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."

"How can any man be weak who dares to be at all? "

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. "

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? "

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

-Henry David Thoreau