The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line,….

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open..

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life..

When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and….

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of….

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain..

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but ….

Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds h….

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the m….

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision..

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark..

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for ….

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at….

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality..

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it..

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish..

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain..

Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infin….

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed..

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged..

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived..