Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Gossip
![When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.](http://cdn.myquotes.org/images/henry-david-thoreau/when-our-life-ceases-to-be-inward-and-private-conversation-degenerates-into-mere-gossip.jpg)
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.221, Graphic Arts Books
Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.86, Graphic Arts Books
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.333, Penguin