Who said "There is a certain advantage in owning nothing."?

This quote is attributed to Henry David Thoreau.

There is a certain advantage in owning nothing. - Henry David Thoreau

"There is a certain advantage in owning nothing."

Henry David Thoreau

Character in Walden

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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life"

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone"