"I am never rich in money, and..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.”

“Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.”

“It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.”

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.”

“So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.”

“wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state”

“The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.”

“What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?”