This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see m...
Ich ging in die Wälder, weil ich bewusst leben wollte.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest ha...
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the w...
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painte...
It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles in...
My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that...
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
There is no remedy for love but to love more."- Henry David Thoreau
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also...