Important Quotations Explained
1. The
mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
2. So
that all the pecuniary outgoes, excepting for washing and mending,
which for the most part were done out of the house, and their bills
have not yet been received . . . were
House,
$28
12 1⁄2Farm one year,
14
72 1⁄2Food eight months,
8 74Clothing &c., eight months,
8
40 3⁄4Oil, &c., eight months,
2 00 In all,
$61
99 3⁄4
3. I
went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front
only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what
it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had
not lived.
4. A
field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually
receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate between
land and sky.
5. It
is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in
Zanzibar.
