"What the banker sighs for, the meanest..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.”

“For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.”

“Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.”

“He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.”

“I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.”

“Poor is the man who desires a lot”

“Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.”

“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.”

“It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”