Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
Henry David ThoreauI mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.
Henry David Thoreau