"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present" — Thomas Fuller

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Source: Walden (1854)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, book 1 (1776)

The most important political office is that of the private citizen

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Thomas Fuller Quote