"I have now a library of nearly..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.”

“Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.”

“The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.”

“Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately”

“To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.”

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”

“This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.”

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”

“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”