Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
That government is best which governs least.
They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little. When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered, The nearest.
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,...
Si tenéis alguna empresa ante vosotros, tratad de hacerla con las ropas viejas. A los hombres les hace falta, no algo con lo que hacer, sino algo que hacer, o mejor, algo que ser. Tal vez no deberíamo...
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.
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...
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...
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.
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 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...
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.
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.