The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. - Henry David Thoreau (Walden; or, Life in the Woods Quotes)

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.[Also known as:]The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Source:(Ticknor and Fields, ed. 1954), Chapter I. Economy, Page 35
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Henry David Thoreau  (Walden; or, Life in the Woods Quotes)