The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Каква е ползата от къща,
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 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...
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.
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...
I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this restless, nervou...
I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted.
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Water is the only drink for a wise man.