"The only wealth is life...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.”

“Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.”

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

“This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.”

“If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”

“Life is not that complicated.”

“I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.”

“The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.”

“in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.”