4.21.2007

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.

2 comments:

Cathy said...

Ah . . . I cleaned the bathrooms today. Sigh. Better the ditching spade than . . .

Patrice said...

Yes, and you didn't make seventy five cents, either! I like Henry's work ethic...