As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself...
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as...
A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.
That he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pa...
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