The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.
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.
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 the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
If some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon.
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...
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...
A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.
Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.