Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Monument

• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Memories, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing

• As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Pride, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Moon, Would Be

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.92

• Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

  Henry David Thoreau

  West, East, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.94

• There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Bible, Rumor

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.188, Xist Publishing

• The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memories, Pyramids, Facts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

• Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Land, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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