Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. Henry David Thoreau Next Quote The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. - Henry David Thoreau Previous Quote We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau