Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
My practice is nowhere, my opinion is here.
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said...
Morning brings back the heroic ages.
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morni...
In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the...
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood...
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to bec...
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
The world is but a canvas for our imagination
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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