"What is the use of going right..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

“The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!”

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

“When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.”

“Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.”

“The great thing about the dead, they make space.”

“We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.”

“The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.”

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.”