"It is not worth the while to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.
More 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.”
“I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.”
“I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.”
More on Purpose
“Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.”
“The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.”
“I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.”
More on Discovery
“I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.”
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
“Until you came along, I never knew how much I’d been missing. I never knew that a touch could be so meaningful or an expression so eloquent; I never knew that a kiss could literally take my breath awa”