We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.


Walden (ed. 1882)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself ...

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself ...

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself ...

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself ...