The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves....Henry David Thoreau
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Henry David Thoreau
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. . . .
Henry David Thoreau
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: concludes, woodshedThere are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales
Politics ruins the character.
Otto von Bismarck
After you get what you want you don't want it.
Irving Berlin