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.
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most s...
The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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.
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...
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature...
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 had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished c...
If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is...
Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I ha...
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came i...
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