Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.
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...
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out a...
Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.
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...
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...
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...
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is...
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.
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 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...