Henry David Thoreau Quote

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.


A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (ed. 1873)


It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul...

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul...

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul...

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul...