"The cost of a thing is the..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.”

“I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age.”

“The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.”

“We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.”

“I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.”

“Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.”

“Life, when is spent well, is long.”

“If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.”

“I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good.”