If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we wal….

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it..

For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into i….

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think th….

I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree itsbark. Now our garmen….

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the Wor….

If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industr….

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - ….

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?.

Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes..

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station..

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour..

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants..

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them..

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetra….

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the t….

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry..

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man..

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man..