Henry David Thoreau Oracles Quotations

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.