“The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.”

“For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?”

“What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world if he lost his soul?”

“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

“...Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lies,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations." Thoreau is playing with the biblical question about what it profits a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul. Lose the whole world, get lost in it, and find your soul.”

“By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose - how does the quotation run? - his own soul? ”