Excerpt from Horae Solitariae

Thoreau thought that nicknames were the only real names. A large and uninteresting family that proves this has some excuse; the writer has less, whose titles should be as veracious as nicknames, so that they shall in time be eloquent of the verse and the poet himself,

"Celui qui la chanson a faicte

A l'umbre d'une coppeau de May."

But Hor? Solitari? - is it not a title under which many might expect a record of their daintiest pleasures? To me, at least, at one time it seemed an apt title for the book of life.

I have been told that the book is very dull. The other day a notoriously honest man told me it was theological.

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