"Yet, for my part, I was never..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”
“Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.”
More on Practicality
“No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.”
“In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.”
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”