Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth.

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr.

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

We’re not motivated to make more money. We all have too much already. We want to do good work.

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.

Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world.

I’ve earned all this money. I’ve worked for it. I didn’t cheat anybody. I didn’t issue junk bonds and put people out of work. I earned it. And I live relatively modestly given my level of success and wealth.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction!

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.

If a person gets his attitude towards money straight, it will straighten out almost every other area in his life.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Money’s only something you need in case you don’t die tomorrow.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.