Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
I do something about the weather. I stay home.
The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.
I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.