Famous quotes containing the words henry david, david and/or erskine:
“A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day’s work.”
—Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922)