Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but t….

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean w….

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals..

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!.

Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such new….

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep..

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows..

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress..

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhap….

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was on….

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that ti….

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world..

We should impart our courage and not our despair..

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after..

A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We hav….

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of ….

The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn….

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures..

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, howeve….

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn..