"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have been nailed dawn to this my native region so long and steadily, and made to study and love this spot of earth more and more. What would signify in comparison a thin and diffused love and knowledge of the whole earth instead, got by wandering? The traveler's is but a barren and comfortless condition. Wealth will not buy a man a home in nature-house nor farm there. The man of business does not by his business earn a residence in nature, but is denaturalized rather.”

“The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.”

“Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have”

“Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.”

“We need much less than we think we need.”