True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians."
"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity."
"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."
"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."