For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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, however measured or far away.
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his h...
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth b...
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for con...
Alles, was unserer körperlichen Ernährung und Pflege dient, lassen wir uns mehr kosten als unsere geistige Ernährung.
We are more of the earth,Farther from heaven these days.