Exchanges Topics

I would have every man so much like a wild antelope, so much a part and parcel of nature, that his very person should thus sweetly advertise our senses of his presence, and remind us of those parts of nature which he most haunts. I feel no disposition to be satirical, when the trapper’s coat emits the odor of musquash even; it is a sweeter scent to me than that which commonly exhales from the merchant’s or the scholar’s garments. When I go into their wardrobes and handle their vestments, I am reminded of no grassy plains and flowery meads ... but of dusty merchants’ exchanges and libraries rather.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)