To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
Source: Walden, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 1854.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.