...cultivation of the mind renders much money superfluous ; a real contentment needs but few dollars. They have forsaken Virgil and Horace for the applied sciences,...is not wealth, but its symbol, merely; that "money will not buy a single necessity of the soul"; and the Spiritual mind exhorts us to seek first the Kingdom...

...that "heaven is given away"? Thoreau himself says: "Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul." And the whole gospel of Walilen might almost be reduced to the formula, ' Simplify your life and elevate your...

...that "heaven is given away"? Thoreau himself says: "Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul." And the whole gospel of Walden might almost be reduced to the formula, ' Simplify your life and elevate your...

...countrymen, whose work leaves them "no time to be anything but a machine" (II, 6). He reminds them that "money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul" (II, 362). He finds that he need work only six weeks a year in order to maintain himself and thus contradicts...

...Thoreau's fable about the artist of Kouroo? Have you ever had a similar experience? • Thoreau asserts that "money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul." Do you agree? What would you say are the necessaries of the soul? • How do you avoid what seems trivial...