Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style whic….

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it.….

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously co….

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe..

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself ….

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law..

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain..

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive..

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality..

The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among English….

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul..

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open..

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish..

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry..

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for ….

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived..

When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and….

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount..

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged..

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark..

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour..