"What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?" ― Henry David Thoreau Topic(s): Society Tags: house More From Henry David Thoreau "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life." "That government is best which governs least." "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." More In Society "There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."― Sam Walton "Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles."― John Kasich