That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David ThoreauI was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it. The country is full of this superstition, so that when one enters a village, the church, not only really but from association, is the ugliest looking building in it, because it is the one in which human nature stoops the lowest and is most disgraced. Certainly, such temples as these shall erelong cease to deform the landscape. There are few things more disheartening and disgusting than when you are walking the streets of a strange village on the Sabbath, to hear a preacher shouting like a boatswain in a gale of wind, and thus harshly profaning the quiet atmosphere of the day.
Henry David ThoreauTag: humor truth america church profanity sabbath superstition country secular a-god fourth-commandment minister new-hampshire profane the-lord
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
Henry David ThoreauI believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
Henry David ThoreauSociety is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
Henry David ThoreauNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David ThoreauTag: friendship
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David ThoreauTag: friendship
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
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My purpose in going to Walden Pond
was not to live cheaply
nor to live dearly there
but to transact some private business,
with the fewest obstacles…
It's a good place for business...
it offers advantages
which it may not be good policy to divulge.
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
Henry David ThoreauTag: writing
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