Me

“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Civil Disobedience

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods