We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies..

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another..

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free..

Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same tim….

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone..

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and rais….

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something..

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend..

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook..

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it..

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet..

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment….

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high..

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans..

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever..

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain..

Be not merely good. Be good for something..

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around..

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body..

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance ….