Gold Rushes

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or rushes:

“Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)