3 Henry David Thoreau Quotes on Value

Henry David Thoreau quotes on value

28. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.

141. I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

142. Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.