"We are born as innocents. We are..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.”

“Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?”

“It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.”

“An honest man is always a child.[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]”

“Children are all foreigners.”

“In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.”

“Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.”

“Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.”

“It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.”