Cape Cod Quotes

“The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

“The time must come when this coast (Cape Cod) will be a place of resort for those New-Englanders who really wish to visit the sea-side. At present it is wholly unknown to the fashionable world, and probably it will never be agreeable to them. If it is merely a ten-pin alley, or a circular railway, or an ocean of mint-julep, that the visitor is in search of, — if he thinks more of the wine than the brine, as I suspect some do at Newport, — I trust that for a long time he will be disappointed here. But this shore will never be more attractive than it is now.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

“It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

“Consider what stuff history is made of, — that for the most part it is merely a story agreed on by posterity.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

“Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

“Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of "speaking for" a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as much as it may be, which their descendants have practised, and are still practising so extensively. Not Any seems to have been the sole proprietor of all America before the Yankees [...] At any rate, I know that if you hold a thing unjustly, there will surely be the devil to pay at last.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

“THE SHIPWRECK”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod