Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Faith never makes a confession.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There...
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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,...
I cannot come nearer to God and HeavenThan I live to Walden even.I am its stony shore,And the breeze that passes o'er;In the hollow of my handAre its water and its sand,
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.
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...
Die Einfachheit und Nacktheit des primitiven Menschen hatte wenigstens den Vorteil, daß er sich in der Natur als Gast fühlte. War er durch Nahrung und Schlaf erquickt, dann dachte er wieder ans Weiter...
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of ever...
A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.
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.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.