Henry David Thoreau Quote

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.


Walden (ed. 1882)


As with our colleges, so with a hundred modern improvements; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes...

As with our colleges, so with a hundred modern improvements; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes...

As with our colleges, so with a hundred modern improvements; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes...

As with our colleges, so with a hundred modern improvements; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes...