"The mass of men lead lives of..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.”

“Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.”

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”

“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”

“I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.”

“Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.”

“The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist”

“Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.”