"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Every time a person dies, it's like a library burning down."
-Ken Burns

"Only here in America were the common folk of the Old World given a chance to show that they could do on their own, without a master to push and order them about. History contrived an earth-shaking joke when it lifted by the nape of the neck lowly peasants, shopkeepers, laborers, paupers, jailbirds and drunks from the midst of Europe, bumped them on a vast virgin continent and said: Go for it. It is yours!"
-Eric Hoffer