Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, t….

America is a country of young men..

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about..

A man should carry nature in his head..

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil..

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds..

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and hou….

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language..

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly..

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a….

Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the….

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness..

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?.

Travel is a fools paradise..

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior..

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the ….

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love..

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating ….

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperame….

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds..