pg. 209 wldn

Text: ...A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth in to the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which i is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors...

This falls into the idea or theme that one can live simply if they wish to. Thoreau lives off brown bread crust in the woods and thinks about life but many people would call him crazy for doing so, especially those who are hard working men with nice things who have most likely mortgaged out their lives. However Thoreau is saying that if you live passionately for what you are doing it does not matter if you are not eating or living in a fancy house because your life will have the quality as if you were if you live passionately for it.