The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and...
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we ma...
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.
The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.
No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.
Even voting is nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the...
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything...
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might have resisted...
The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these.I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal,...
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