"I do not know but it is..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.”
“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.”
“For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.”
More on Priorities
“It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.”
“Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.”
“I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.”