There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on
old man who will not forsake the world, which
has already forsaken him.
-- Tholuck
The youth gets together his materials to build a
bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or
temple on the earth, and, at length, the
middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed
with them.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
1817-1862,
American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
None are so old as those who have outlived
enthusiasm
-- Henry David
Thoreau
1817-1862,
American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
As
for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at
in them so much as the fact that so many men
could be found degraded enough to spend their
lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious
booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier
to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his
body to the dogs.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
1817-1862,
American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
