Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of…

Henry David Thoreau
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2014). Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, p.69, Graphic Arts Books
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2009). Walden, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2012). The Portable Thoreau, p.87, Penguin
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1882). Walden, p.92
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2014). Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, p.69, Graphic Arts Books

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