Henry David Thoreau Quote

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.


Walden (ed. 1882)


I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a...

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a...

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a...

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a...