I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.


Walden (ed. 1882)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass ...

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass ...

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass ...

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass ...