Thoreau's classic quotations

1. Excess wealth can only be exchanged for the life of the extravagant, but the necessities of the soul do not need to be purchased with money.

2. Only the combination of mind and nature can produce wisdom and imagination.

3. Virtue and good deeds are the only unbeatable investment.

4. Those who have time to increase their spiritual wealth are the ones who truly enjoy comfort.

5. Human beings are like a buoy, which cannot be sunk by any wind or wave.

6. I would rather sit alone on a pumpkin than sit crowded on a velvet cushion.

7. I like to be alone. I have never found a better companion than solitude.

8. A walk in the morning is a blessing to the whole day.

9. If I really speak to Yun, you must not be offended.

10. A city is a place where millions of people live alone together.

11. If a man and his companions do not keep pace, perhaps it is because he hears a different kind of drumbeat. Just let him go at his own pace, no matter how fast, slow or far he goes.

12. The mind is always inexperienced.

13. Sometimes being sick is good for your health.

14. Instead of giving me love, money or fame, give me the truth.

15. Only a person who has time to increase the wealth of his soul can truly enjoy leisure.

16. Kindness is the only investment that will never fail.

17. The necessities of the soul do not need to be purchased with money.

18. Human beings have become tools of their tools.

19. What’s the use of a beautiful house if you don’t have a tolerable planet to put it on?

20. The world is just a canvas for our imagination.

21. Most people live in quiet despair. When they enter their graves, their songs have not yet been sung.

22. Don’t hire someone who works for you for money.

23. We can also hate people who we can love. The rest are of no consequence to us.

24. Even in heaven, those who find faults will find thorns.

25. Many people have fished for a lifetime, but they don’t know that their purpose of fishing is not for fish.

26. Only when we are lost can we begin to understand ourselves.

27. Excess wealth can only buy excess things.

28. Most luxury goods and many so-called conveniences of life are not only not indispensable, but also an obstacle to human progress.

29. Absolutely speaking, the more wealth there is, the less virtue there is. ;