Henry David Thoreau Poverty Quotations

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.