Quips and Quotations (Transcendentalist Meditation Edition)

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, Walden; or, a Life in the Woods, first published on this date in 1854.

 

 

Quips and Quotations (Social Systems of Yore Edition)

As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

--Henry David Thoreau

Quips and Quotations (Rest Stop Edition)

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

--Henry David Thoreau