Quotes of the Day

In Thoreau's Walden, the author spends 2 years living alone in the woods. He is contemplating the meaning of life. Below are several quotes which eximplify this work:

"It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow."

"The universe is wider than our views of it."

"Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."