"The chimney is to some extent an..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.”

“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.”

“To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.”

“If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.”

“Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.”

“All great enterprises are self-supporting.”

“In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.”

“I will walk where failures fear to walk.”

“As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.”