Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they culti….

Dissent without action is consent..

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man..

The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beaut….

Count your age with friends but not with years..

I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled..

I make myself rich by making my wants few..

When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when the….

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it..

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects n….

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth..

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you..

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope..

We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the ef….

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill..

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and….

There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at ….

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness..

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another..

I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will….

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows..