Famous quotes containing the words henry david and/or david:
“I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Shall we with pains erect a heaven of blue glass over ourselves, though when it is done we shall be sure to gaze still at the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)