The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Life Quotes

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,...

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while...

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while...

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of...

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of...

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one...

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one...

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of...

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of...

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even...

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even...

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make...

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make...

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it...

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it...

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.