The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied ….

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it..

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God..

It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in….

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, s….

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science..

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….

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

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

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain..

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs..

At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make i….

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 ….

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..

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts..

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their….

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There a….

As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life appr….

Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he ….

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and g….

All great enterprises are self-supporting..