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Familiar Studies of Men and Books Quotes

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not, as Thoreau says, “earned money merely,” but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Source:Chapter 5. Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions (1880), Page 145
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Familiar Studies of Men and Books Quotes)
  • Book: Familiar Studies of Men and Books
  • Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1882
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