By Noah Price

AFFLUENZA TODAY

• "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

• “The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day. They go and come with such regularity and precision, and their whistles can be heard so far, that the farmers set their clocks by them, and thus one well conducted institution regulates a whole country. ”

• “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”

• “Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”

“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.”

• “It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”

• “Our life is frittered away by detail.”

• "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?"

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”

• “Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves,dispel the clouds which hang over our brows,and take up a little life into our pores.Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor,but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.”

• “We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.”

• "I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust."

• “One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have the leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.”

“Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity.”

• “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

• “Take shelter under the cloud”

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• “They warmed me twice -- once while I was splitting them, and again when they were on the fire, so that no fuel could give out more heat.”

"I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls."

“A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”

• “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

• What of architectural beauty I now see, I know has gradually grown from within outward, out of the necessities and character of the indweller, who is the only builder,—out of some unconscious truthfulness, and nobleness, without ever a thought for the appearance

• What is a country without rabbits and partridges?

• "However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names."

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