"Wealth is the ability to fully experience..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.”

“When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.”

“I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.”

“For to give is the business of the rich.[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]”

“It is wealth to be content.”

“What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?”

“A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”

“Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.”

“I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.”