Henry David Thoreau

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.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed!

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

You can’t borrow your way to prosperity. Look for ways to create value and you will attract money.

No man’s credit is as good as his money.

The best thing I know about me, is that I’m rich

The point is, you can never be too greedy.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Money frees you from things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money comes in handy.

To make a million, start with $900,000.

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Too much money ain’t enough money.

If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money.