They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. Th….

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it..

The savage in man is never quite eradicated..

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse..

Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and p….

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not ….

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting t….

We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect matur….

I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reach….

The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war se….

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory..

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born..

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking..

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they ….

There never is but one opportunity of a kind..

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it i….

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's ….

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on ….

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so….

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..