It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialities of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard. Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?
---Henry David Thoreau---
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