Henry David Thoreau Luxury Quotations

All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.