4.20.2006

Thoreau's Journal: 20-Apr-1841

Great thoughts hallow any labor. To-day I earned seventy-five cents heaving manure out of a pen, and made a good bargain of it. If the ditcher muses the while how he may live uprightly, the ditching spade and turf knife may be engraved on the coat-of-arms of his posterity.

1 comment:

ControlThis said...

shovel engraved on the coat-of-arms of his posterity.

I've been flipping burgers so hard, I'm thinking of getting a spatula tatooed on my posterity.