Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I'm happy without money.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

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

I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

My material life is simple.

Me, I don't need money.

I prefer to stay poor.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.