The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.
What is religion? That which is never spoken. - Henry David Thoreau
What is religion? That which is never spoken.
- Henry David Thoreau
For things to change, we must change. - Henry David Thoreau
For things to change, we must change.
There is no beginning too small. - Henry David Thoreau
There is no beginning too small.
We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally ser… - Henry David Thoreau
We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally ser…
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. - Henry David Thoreau
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
That government is best which governs least. - Henry David Thoreau
That government is best which governs least.
If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. - Henry David Thoreau
If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.
Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the small… - Henry David Thoreau
Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the small…
There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself. - Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.
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