Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided...
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and...
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the b...
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Jamás existirá un Estado realmente libre e iluminado hasta cuando ese Estado reconozca al individuo como un poder más alto e independiente, del cual se deriva su propio poder y autoridad y lo trate de...
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigour of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall neve...
It is never too late to give up your prejudices
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there i...
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
This afternoon, being on Fair Haven Hill, I heard the sound of a saw, and soon after from the Cliff saw two men sawing down a noble pine beneath, about forty rods off. I resolved to watch it till it f...
This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.
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