("Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows. Doesn't matter. And some people recover, and others don't.”)
— Charlie Munger
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomenon to the preservation of Moral & intellectual health.
The discipline of the schools or of business—can never impart such serenity to the mind.
May 6, 1851
He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes
and symbols with which to describe his life. If these gates of golden
willows affect me, they correspond to the beauty and promise of some
experience on which I am entering. If I am overflowing with life, am
rich in experience for which I lack expression, then nature will be my
language full of poetry — all nature will fable, and every natural
phenomenon be a myth.
The man of science, who is not seeking for expression but for a fact to
be expressed merely, studies nature as a dead language. I pray for such
inward experience as will make nature significant.
May 10, 1853
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call
it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you
are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love
your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,
glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.
—A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
If you mean by hard times, times not when there is no bread, but when there is no cake, I have no sympathy with you.
—Journal, 28 January 1852
If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.
—"Life without Principle"
Love your life, poor as it is.
—Walden
The rich man . . . is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
—"Resistance to Civil Government"
You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to posses the wealth of a day.
—"Life without Principle"
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