Henry David Thoreau Lace Quotations

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.