"Thoreau" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never ready for instant use. In literature she knew Shakespeare, Balzac, Thackeray, Hawthorne, and Longfellow, but if you had asked her to place Homer, Schiller, Dante, Victor Hugo, James Fenimore Cooper, or Thoreau she couldn't have done it ...
— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... these things that he loved. Even here, however, he is at times almost impossibly impersonal, so that you feel in a certain description that there is no man between you and the thing described, but that, to adapt a phrase of Thoreau, it is the hills and the sea and the atmosphere writing. This impersonality persists even in "The Aran Islands," so large a part of which is very personal in that it is a statement of his daily life on Inishmaan. It is not, however, from the impersonal writing that I would quote,—though ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt
... I paused to lean on my hoe, these sounds and sights I heard and saw anywhere in the row, a part of the inexhaustible entertainment which the country offers." —THOREAU. ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears." THOREAU ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
... and character seemed agreeable indeed, but nothing out of the ordinary; my tacit presumption was that other children as well as I could if they would walk hand in hand with Emerson along the village street, seek in the meadows for arrow-heads with Thoreau, watch Powers thump the brown clay of the "Greek Slave," or listen to the voice of Charlotte Cushman, which could sway assembled thousands, modulate itself to tell stories to the urchin who leaned, rapt, against her knees. Were human felicity so omnipresent as a happy child imagines ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne
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