As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits."
"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."
"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity."
"Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender."
"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!"
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."