Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

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• Henry David Thoreau:

  Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the so

• Henry David Thoreau:

  An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

• Bertolt Brecht:

  Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

• Bertolt Brecht:

  Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.