"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
More Henry David Thoreau quotes
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and ri...
"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work ...
"Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with ...
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpect...
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
"So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but t...
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teac...
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperat...
"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in...
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he h...
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
"Life in us is like the water in a river.