...fortunate in securing sketches on this subject by an author as well versed in th's matter as Mr. Clark.) "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." — Thoreau. ANY writers have devoted much space to the matter of taking full advantage of the nearby,...

...causes aiding to the result) in the condition Ireland has been for centuries back. A man is said to be rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. You remember the remark of the old philosopher, when passing through the crowded bazaar where every...

...process — by limiting one's desires to those things which are really necessary; in Thoreau's own words, "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Every one may add to his own riches, and may lessen his own labor, and that of others, in the treadmill...

...— by limiting one's desires to those things which are really necessary ; in Thoreiu's own words, " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." It is habit only which makes us regard as necessary a great part of the equipment of civilized life,...

...who was in an eminent degree the apostle of plain living and high thinking, Henry David Thoreau, " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Thoreau demonstrated by actual experiment that by working about six weeks in the year he could meet...

...claims of business ; and that the surest way of becoming rich is to need little — in his own words, " a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." " I have tried trade," he wrote in Walden, " but I found that it would take ten years to get under...

...tried to dispense with them, to be an essential part of modern civilization. It was his opinion that "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone " ; and his general attitude on this point may be gathered from that typical reply of his, when he...

...more expeditious method, by limiting one's desires to really necessary things. "A man," says Thoreau, "is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." He did not merely talk of Arcadian simplicity ; he carried his theories into practical effect. When...

...life is declared most clearly. The key to Thoreau' s philosophy is to be found in his saying that " a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." "I went to the woods," so he tells us, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential...

...such as Clough delightedly describes in his American letters, were the general instinct and practice. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone," said Thoreau. Perhaps the simplicity of life gained peculiar charm from a wistful prescience that it...