The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.
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Vera Nazarian
Mine is better than ours.
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Benjamin Franklin
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.
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Henry George
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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William James
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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John Locke
More Quotes By Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed...
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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.
