Famous quotes containing the words henry david, david and/or erskine:
“Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor’s advice? There is a nearer neighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.”
—Ralph Erskine (b. 1914)