Henry David Thoreau Wealth Quotations

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

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

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

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

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

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

The only wealth is life.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.