“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.