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 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...
The universe is wider than our views of it.
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.
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is...
No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your cl...
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.
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Life in us is like the water in a river.
The world is but a canvas for our imagination
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
We should be men first, and subjects afterward.
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fa...
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.