There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin….

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures..

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it….

Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than w….

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood..

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in a slave State in which a free man….

As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grande….

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter..

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones..

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends….

Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only ….

We can never have enough of Nature..

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid..

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man..

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and….

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and n….

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place..

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land..

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends ….

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth..

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They….