Money Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

— Henry David Thoreau

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

— Henry David Thoreau

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

— Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life.

— Henry David Thoreau

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The ways by which you get money almost without exception lead downward”

— Henry David Thoreau

“A man's riches are based on what he can do without.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

— Henry David Thoreau

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.”

— Henry David Thoreau

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

— Henry David Thoreau

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

— Henry David Thoreau

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as…

— Henry David Thoreau

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding…

— Henry David Thoreau

“No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that…

— Henry David Thoreau

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

— Henry David Thoreau

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich,…

— Henry David Thoreau

If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable…

— Henry David Thoreau

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do…

— Henry David Thoreau

I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money… In fact, these…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not…

— Henry David Thoreau

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating…

— Henry David Thoreau

If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The ways by which you may get your money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earn…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly… You are…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money…

— Henry David Thoreau

The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made…

— Henry David Thoreau

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

— Henry David Thoreau